I'm seeing some growth in my 401K but much more in my real estate activities.

There is so much wealth of information on the internet and books people with the drive and motivation can teach themselves just about anything.

If another investor drives by a house with a car parked on the street, and a woman with a cell phone walking around the outside, they'll be looking up the property asap.

That drives the learning process, and turns it into a series of specific things that you must learn one after the other, rather than a vague "learn lots of stuff about RE" which is harder to act on.Start with an end goal in mind, and then work backwards from that.

I buy wholesale on properties where there is little competition to drive the price up.

The massive growth seen in that time was unrealistic, and unsustainable.

With people still coming back, (parents that stay in the city they left Katrina for while their children finished high school... people like my mother) i can say that with the distressed home and steadily rising market I see positive growth potential.I am flat broke... but I have been helping my grandparents and living with them during my college years... so i am not this lazy kid who wants to make it over night.

Worth it for my daughters to not to be over developed at young ages from all of the growth hormones.

I realized I really enjoy driving around and looking at properties.

I realized I really enjoy driving around and looking at properties.