My BP Intro: Only up from here!

[Curtis Linville]

Hello there fantastic people of BP, I'm interested in joining you guys on this real estate adventure. I'm 24, a software dev, entrepreneur, lifelong learner, and most importantly... receptive to your sage advice. I live near and around the KC MO area and would like to invest close to home before branching out. Currently I am looking into 'buy and hold' properties because my goal is to generate enough passive income to support myself in creating other businesses, not necessarily related to real estate.

I've listened to a few cherry picked BP podcast before starting from episode one (currently on 22), attended one meetup with another one planned tonight, spoke with 2 local investors to build a solid connection and I and am half way through the E-Myth.

I just started diving into all of this real estate talk about a month or so ago and I can not wait to gather a few units. So that this isn't just a 'Hello my name is' message I'd like to generate some discussion:

1.) My next step is to get friendly with lenders, how have you accomplished this, how can I accomplish this if I'm at work during banking hours?

2.) How have you Incorporated e-myth's franchise prototype into your real estate empire? Such as practices, systems and other goals?

Thank you guys for the warm welcome, for being an open community, and getting me this far in my journey.