I've been a teacher (5th grade and 7th S.S.) for 22 years and can retire with full pension in 3 years.   

After years as a Realtor and investor, I stepped away from investing for a while. Now, I’m rebuilding my portfolio while continuing to help others buy and sell homes. I’m focused on multi-family and creative financing...

Are you taking it online as a self study, or are you in a class with a teacher?

Think of it like a teacher who has passed their classes to be a teacher.

The greatest teacher will always be experience.

The teacher was an actual financial educator but they repeated themselves a lot and were telling the students to go in and apply for credit cards DURING the course to purchase the next course for $15,000!

Former teacher here.

Three are in a in a trust, from one of my kid'e teachers. 

@Paul Cijunelis  thank you for this response Paul, well I firstly got interested in CRE when one of my high school teachers told me about how he does it and that kind of started my interest, I really love CRE because I've noticed it's a very lucrative and risky business like high risk high reward, but not just that I really love seeing a bunch of properties being brought back to life with renovations.

But if you lay out your plan to the owner over the phone, it's very hard to get a "yes" because trust is developed with a face to face meeting.Trust can be established by talking about your past record (as an investor) but also if you have something positive about yourself (profession - real estate agent, nurse, teacher, fireman, doctor - any profession that can give you some added credentials).#4 Owner vs.