If I had stuck it out and knew I fraction of what I know now, I'd be light-years ahead.Use your GI bill to study finance, investments, economics, accounting and such, you don't need a full degree.Am I satisfied with my own decision?

Sure, I had studied the auction business for five years before I bid on anything, and I had followed every foreclosure auction in my county during that five year period and had searched title on every one of them just for practice, but I didn't even know what I didn't know.

New to real estate investing have been doing a lot of studying on my own reading books, watching webinars, and recently attended a 3 day workshop.

I study something new about investing everyday and have been for the past 8 months or so.

We had our monthly Hunting Club call yesterday; don't know if you were one of people from KY listening in.If you have done other types of real estate deals, you'll soon discover that, essentially, probate is a title-related matter. 

Even if you buy #3 and #4 in an LLC and finance through the LLC in a commercial bank, the Fannie Mae underwriting process will "discover" those loans (assuming you are 50% or more owner) when they review your pass-through finances on the LLC taxes.

Also, what would you suggest to focus your studying on.

My name is Daniel Brueske and I just discovered BiggerPockets a few weeks ago.

I'm 18 years old and am taking a year off between high school and college to study real estate on my own.

I'm 18 years old and am taking a year off between high school and college to study real estate on my own.