I am devoted on becoming a great investor and meet amazing people along the way.

He is selling because he no longer has time to devote to this property.

A personal injury attorney may not have the time to devote to really learning a new field, it's not common sense much of the time.I'd also suggest you carve out a niche, what segment of the note market you want to be in and become an expert in that area, marketing, valuations, law, finance/banking as well as all aspects of RE play in the paper game.

I work full time and I used to devote most of my spare time to RE, but I have a one year old now and I have no more spare time!

Since devoting a couple of hours each day to read, sometimes post and often comment on the forums, blogs and articles, I have witnessed an increase in following on all of my social media sites and my own website.

Just for the heck of it I did a local smaller study every 10 years prox, 1975, 1985,and finally 1994 and then quit as it was just to much work and time, and the results were the same, their net was not that wonderful dollar wise,it cost them money, but I am sure many were proud they got it done and closed by themselves successfully and could brag to others.As a matter of fact a very early study in Palo Alto, California showed most sellers that actually sold by fsbo, never intended to do it again after their experience, but they were not investors, selling multiple properties during the year and thus experienced.As for fsbo sites, why would I devote time to looking for a property there, well of course they are not paying a commission and I want it, and I know most of them will take an offer just to get it over with if the commission is the only factor so they saved nothing, and if they are not too sharp or frustrated enough I can get even a bigger discount.

And yet, I'm doing so to break out of the corporate world so I can devote 100% of my time to real estate.

You may have to devote some time to learning various underwritting rules and regulations.

This means if I would have focused solely on buying real estate, I would have more rentals = more cash flow.I'm no expert when it comes to stocks and unless you can devote a lot of time to day trading and analysis, the stocks owner always has the insider knowledge that we don't have.

I wrote a blog on developing, it's under the tab above Learn, then go down to Member Blogs and search Karen Margrave, or "So You Want To Be A Developer", plus there's other great blogs devoted to that too.