Need some guidance ! Badly!

[Christian B Powe]

Hello Bigger Pockets! I'm a young guy from North brunswick NJ eager to get started in real estate investing.  I see this as an excellent resource and am so motivated its like I just started a new job.  My main goal is to this forum as a helping hand and secondly be able to learn enough to be able to handle deals on my own. Already I've began making Excel spreadsheets and getting organized with information I'm pulling and and building a list of questions.  I hope that through this forum everyone can learn more about me and we can teach something to each other. :)   P.S. I just first started my interest in real estate over Thanksgiving...lets see where I am in 1, 3, 6, 12 months?

[Andy Luick]

You're already doing some of it by coming here to BP....learn on someone else's dime as much as you can.  Read up here and realize that a chunk of what's here is bunk as well...that you will sort out over time.  Network here and try to find some flippers in your area and go volunteer to be a "free" work on some of their projects.  You will learn the most by actually doing it....and it's a huge mistake for an investor to not understand the nuts and bolts of how to turn a house.  You'll discover an almost limitless number of ways to invest in real estate....but try to find the one or two you are most passionate about and become as expert as you can in that area.  Some folks are experts at turning tax liens.....others do only mobile home parks....some make a ton solving probate issues or removing tax liens.....you gett my drift.  Read......read....read....and learn to earn.