BiggerPockets

Find some one on PB in Huston and buy them lunch. You will probably learn more from that lunch then you will in 10 books. If you want we can chat look me up in your ever in St Louis area.

I would recommend starting out investing in the used mobile home market. Motivation is key - you have to turn off the TV and get up out of the couch potato position. Robert Kiyosaki says the best way to learn is by doing - he talks about the hours he spent playing monopoly (which was originally designed for use at a business school) to learn real estate principles. If you like reading books, read the one that says "Everything I learned about business, I learned from playing monopoly". Robert Kiyosaki in one of his books lists about 10 ways that people learn. Picture an inverted pyramid with 1. being actually doing something to learn it and 2. being shown how to do it by a mentor. The list goes on down to the point of the pyramid where learning is worst - bottom 2 are (I forget the order): Learning from a lecture and learning by reading about it! To really learn - you need to be doing the top 5 ways instead of lurking aroound at the bottom.