. - Connects you with a community of other trainees and gives you access to a discussion board with a couple of years worth of archived questions and responses. - The deal calculator provided is super solid.

@Nathan SmithIf you are at all mechanically inclined, I’d try to find a paid internship/apprenticeship program in the trades, such as electrician, plumbing, HVAC.This would expose you to renovation work while making a good salary and without taking on debt.Personally, I went straight to a pretty good public university and got a mostly useless liberal arts degree because that’s what everyone told me was the right thing to do.After ski bumming for years, I got hired as a nuclear reactor trainee by GE.

They then use the trainees to do the heavy lifting to find the 1 in a 1,000 property that is a deal to buy and possibly partner with them on it or provide the funding on it with a loan. 

This is not the environment to, in an unsolicited manner, be treating unrelated civilians as though they were military trainees.