Real Estate Investor · Las Vegas, NV · Member since 2008 · 1k+ posts · 447 votes
19y
I spent 15 years as a CFP or Certified Financial Planner. I found that a very large percentage of my wealthy clients had made money in real estate so I started doing it. I retired from financial planning several years ago. I did establish a network marketing business that provides me with a very good cash flow and allows me the time to do real estate projects. I rehab houses and hold some for rentals and others I flip. It is great to be out of the rat race!
Residential Real Estate Broker · Conroe, TX · Member since 2008 · 1k+ posts · 43 votes
19y
Nuclear Security then from there to sales.
You name it....I've sold it. Furniture, Cars, Pots and Pans, Siding, Insulation, ect... I guess the most interesting job prior to real estate was Taxi Cab Driver.
Real Estate Investor · Millsboro, DE · Member since 2008 · 480 posts · 26 votes
19y
Cutting grass. My uncle and I started a lawn care business a few years back, and he wont let me leave, so Ill probably be cutting grass forever....with or without real estate. :D
Rental Property Investor · Twin Cities, MN · Member since 2008 · 94 posts · 10 votes
19y
I was in the automation industry as a controls system software engineer. I left for 5 yrs to be in RE full time as an agent and loan officer, while building my REI portfolio. After five years, My portfolio has grown greatly and I have recently returned to the automation industry and don't foresee ever counting on RE for my only income source ever again.
I feel like it is free money. Granted I have to be there 40 hrs a week, but heck, I am now doing RE and mortgage deals in about 1 evening a week that before I just went to my office for every day. A job is guaranteed money. RE money has highs and lows, when you couple it with now having a company sponsored health plan, I am in far better shape doing both...If/when my Real Estate activities make me 3 times what my JOB does in consistent income, I may consider quitting. Otherwise, Real Estate is my other full time job.
Boonies, PA · Member since 2008 · 333 posts · 15 votes
19y
Electrical Tech for 9 years and counting. Not a bad job. I buy real estate to hold for the long haul. I don't spend the money I make off of them. I treat my RE like a 401k I'm starting to ramp up my offers I'm putting out. I have had 3 duplexes for 1.5 years. so far so good. In that time frame I was able to put $9,500 in the bank and have about $40,000 in equity so far. Not to bad for a 1.5 year run. what type of Stock would give you that return on no money :beer: Plus in about 8 years I will be able to pay those properties off so then the rents will give me more than social security would.
WOW those are pretty broad backgrounds. I work with HGTV's new reality show Bought & Sold and i've taken a real interest in real estate. I'm learning a lot from the show and one thing i noticed is that pple on the show have very interesting backgrounds.
Boonies, PA · Member since 2008 · 333 posts · 15 votes
19y
I can't say I have, I might of seen it. I know I watched one show were the guy doing the flips was a full time software engineer and just did real estate part time in the weekends and nights. That is honestly the best approach. So many people get a fire that REI is easy and is for everyone.
I worked for TABC Toyota Manufacturing for 6 years on 2nd shift. And quit 2 months ago because i finally found a 1st shift job that pay's me the same salary. Also now i can spend time with my wife and kids and do what i love most REI... :D :D :D
I started sellin vaccums door to door, then became a divisional sales trainer and recruiter fot that company. I was a Manager at Pet's'Mart concentrating on boosting sales. I've sold cars, and was a sales manager in the car industry. I was about to go into financial planning and through networking landed in brokering Bulk REO and Note packages. It's great, I am truely blessed!!!
I worked in new construction clean-up for a tract builder I kept seeing so many things in the new homes that drove me crazy so I would make a list everyday for the builder. Finally, after a year he pitched a Nextel to me and said you handle it so I did and have been for the last 8 years. :woohoo:
Real Estate Investor · London · Member since 2008 · 3k+ posts · 74 votes
19y
Software engineer and then management for groups of engineers. Silicon Valley when I was on the vendor side and then later banking when I was on the client side. Different countries along the way.
I had a business importing pocketbikes from Italy (before they were the junky toys you see today) Now I am a housewife (VERY strange for me if you knew my background) working on getting my RE career going. My husband just quit his job to go out on his own doing field service work on construction equipment. So, I have put my rehabbing dreams on hold for a bit to help him get his buisness off the ground. It's ok though because he really needed to stop working for someone else and I'm real interested in Lease Options now anyway.
I am excited to be on this website and join this group. I was a residential realtor for 5 years, and I have made the jump over to the commercial/land investing side in Stamford, CT. I am a little scared but excited none the less because this is something I have always wanted to do. If anyone can offer me any tips or if I can be of any service, my im screename is gambynoles
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I am currently in school for my bachelors in psychology. I got into RE and REI this summer because my father has been a broker for over 25 years. In his office, (speaking on brokering only) I've found that people who have backgrounds in sales tend to have a better/easier transition than people with other desk jobs. I imagine its due to there personable attitude. Investing and brokering however seems to be apple's and bowling balls.
Pleasant Hill, CA · Member since 2008 · 428 posts · 43 votes
19y
It's always nice to hear what people did before Real Estate. I was in the Restaurant Management and Bar business while majoring in Finance at Cal State Hayward.
Right After I graduated I moved into the Mortgage Business and I have been working on being a full time investor for about 4 months. I am working on my first deals now!