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26 April 2016 | 1 reply
For many years, my passion is real estate investment but I have put this on hold for over a decade after starting a family.
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18 May 2016 | 2 replies
And I seem to have an innate passion for it too because it makes me excited just thinking about it.
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25 May 2016 | 2 replies
I have been growing a passion for real estate investing and was about to attend the Success Path career seminar presented by Christina and Tarek but then read the reviews on this site about it and changed my mind.
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30 October 2018 | 9 replies
Tennis has been my whole life, so REI has kind of been my new focus transitioning away from the tennis world and finding my new passion.
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1 November 2018 | 33 replies
It’s my passion and I’m not going to give up but it definitely gives me anxiety when I think about buying another property.
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27 March 2018 | 8 replies
I am a soon-to-be licensed Real Estate Agent with a passion for properties and numbers.
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5 May 2018 | 4 replies
I worked to land the major certifications and in the process to improve my craft, all with the end goal of using these skills to be an effective real estate investor.Fast forward to this February, I became fed up with putting real estate on the back burner as I felt like I had accomplished everything that I wanted to in my professional career and it was time to put the full effort into my true passion, real estate investing.
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11 June 2019 | 3 replies
For me personally, it's really just as simple as finding what you are passionate about.
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21 June 2018 | 3 replies
I'm also a novice real estate investor, but I found my passion for it in college in the same way you did, after being dissatisfied with the returns I was getting in my stock portfolio.
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28 January 2019 | 1 reply
It's convenient that I also have a passion for real estate.