REI-guru junk, and saving you $97

I'll try and keep this one short and sweet. Being my first blog post, I'll start with my first  taste of real estate investing. 

I'm 22 years old  and I have one semester left at Central Michigan University until I finally receive my degree I'm political science and economics (snore). When I started thinking about my future, I didn't want to be out of school working a job until I day I die living pay check to paycheck-paying for things I don't need with money I don't have. I wanted to find a way to make decent money doing something I enjoy. I also wanted to have the freedom to spend time with the people I care about and do other things I enjoy. 

I wrestled for CMU for 4 years and you don't go pro in wrestling-so that wasn't the answer.  Politics interested me until I learned how politics really work. It's getting harder and harder to find entry level positions-it will be even tougher with a bunch of states proposing  a $15/hour min. wage.  Real estate interested me and seemed like the way to go...because honestly, nobody wants to start out at McDonalds 

Somehow I came across real estate mogul-which is the most annoying website in the world. It told me everything I wanted to hear about making money investing in real estate-but as many people involved in real estate know, this was a guru pitching sale after sale. He would suck me in until the end of something only to hear: "only $97" for this, or $97 for that. I got a month long membership. Thankfully the day before the end of that month I called and got a refund for this. But they then offered me a bulk of training items for $197. No way. They then called me back later that week and asked if I would be interested in coming to California to have a real estate mentor-for only $1197! BiggerPockets likes "tweetable topics" so here's my best shot at one...any sales pitch that seems fishy ending in 97 is a load a garbage. 

BiggerPockets.com has provided me all of the resources I need, and I love the community atmosphere. Some of the smartest people in the industry are on here everyday and are more than willing to answer any questions. And the crazy part-they are not asking for $97 either. 

I have studied REI now for a little over a year. But after 3 or 4 months on BP I'm currently in  negotiation for 3 different deals (as of today), and I'm in the process of having an attorney write up the contract for an offer that was (surprisingly) accepted. 

I'll stop rambling now but I just wanted to put it out there that my career has been launched because of BP. I couldn't be more pleased.