Keeping your day job while doing real estate

[Bryan Tilos]

Hey all, When you all chose to be real estate investors (and had a full-time job), did you decide to quit your job and pursue real estate?

[Kevin Harrison]

This very much depends on the person. Some people never quit their day job, and use REI as a way to make more money on the side. Some people have a nest egg and when they hit X dollar amount they quit their day job and go full time into REI.

I think what you will find is most common though is that people start REI while working and when they start making enough to support themselves and still save for that next investment, is when most people make the jump to full time.

Far less common I think, are the people who decide "this is what im going to do with my life" and quit their 9-5, without first having laid the ground work for several years.