I'm new, just another poor college student

[Benjamin Ertl]

Hey everyone,

My name is Ben and I'm a junior in college looking to learn more about how I can better secure my financial future. I'm definitely a beginner when it comes to real estate investing but hope to learn more and potentially use the knowledge later in life.

I'm also very very short on cash which has me pretty limited on investing options, but that doesn't I can't learn.

I've tried eBay sales, working various low-wage jobs, etc but only recently started to do freelance online marketing work for an Arizona company -- which has been pretty good. I hope to someday save enough to invest for the long-term.

I'm majoring in economics and German so I have some background in how markets function, but like anything you can only really learn by doing (at least for me).

Hope to hear from some of you, any and all advice is welcome.

[Shaun Reilly]

Originally posted by Benjamin Ertl:

Thanks for the friendly "hello". I'll definitely have to find those and give them a try. Also glad to here that this site is actually useful.

BP is a very useful resource. Be active in the forums and you can get pretty much any question you ever have answered. The various articles are really good for getting a look at lots of different strategies from a lot of perspectives and the podcasts are great!

Go to the "Learn" tab on the blue bar at the top of the screen to find this stuff.

I do highly recommend this Podcast episode:

http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/11/07/bp-podcast-043-shaun-reilly-flipping/

:)