I am a commercial real estate underwriter…interesting business which allows me to learn about the different markets and property types…however, the deals that I do work on are out of my range as an investor
Biologist. I also teach an occasional course at my local junior college and run a consulting company. My wife and I do the consulting gig together, working for both conservationists and developers. We work mainly with landscape level inference and Geographic Information Systems.
It is true that there are many hours in the week for pursuing real estate and other investment techniques. I try to spend as many of those extra hours with my family as possible. I take the acquisition of investment knowledge one step at a time, focusing more on understanding an approach in implementing it than becoming bogged down with too much information. There’s a lifetime worth of learning out there.
Turn off your TV and computer and all other electronic devices and you will have all kinds of time.
Former Army officer (PATRIOT missiles)
Currently: Software Engineer (working a Navy project, oddly enough)
The eeenternet is my liiiife…web developer, programming and maintaining web sites.
I’m a teacher. I run an in-school suspension room for high school students. I get the impression that some of you folks would have been in my program when you were in school!!
Brian
:o THAT WAS YOU?!?!?
Only one 3 hr in-school…it was just me and one other person sitting in the lobby of the principal’s office. A few out of school suspensions for fighting in elementry and middle school.
Sports event producer by day (and night)/Artist Manager by night (and day)
Sometimes a Wholesaler
Sometimes a Bird Dog
Will be a Short Sales Buyer type person when one of these $%#^ banks says yes
Fresh off a two month stint as a deputy slum lord-- :-[ahem :-[ --property manager (for my Mentor while he frolicked around in Italy) presumably to kill my constant craving to be a landlord despite my potentially disastrous near-purchase last summer. I’m sooo cured!
You say that now but you don’t really mean it…LOL!
Keith
No seriously I do mean it! Those people in his properties were NUTS! I swear it’s in the rental agreement fine print:
-must not pay your already subsidized rent in cash or money order, but in rubber-sealed bank drafts in your baby momma aintee’s name along with five pre-rehearsed excuses when I come right back here after driving to the bank (cuz aintee and I happen the share the same bank) to learn that the check ain’t no damn good.
-must maintain a mysterious wafting poopy smell in apartment at all times. may substitute cat pi$$.
-must move out in the middle of the nite and take the diamondy looking cabinet knobs. extra points for leaving out the “t” in when you spray paint “bich” across the living room wall when you leave
-most importantly, must be certifiably and verifiably OFF YOUR ROCKER–anyone caught ON their rocker at any time faces IMMEDIATE EVICITION).
Jeez!! No wonder Mike’s so surly all the time (oh, uh, Hi Mike! :-*).
Ok ok so I’m exaggerating (but not by much. First two things really happened as described although he did “find” the money that day to give me, and the b-word was actually politely enclosed in an envelope and left in the rent box when another tenant bailed with the knobs). My mentor loves being a landlord. I guess I could get used to it, but I do see what others mean about who you rent to. Most of his tenants were actually decent working people that are happy to have a chance at something nice(his properties are lovely rehab rental houses and apartment buildings), then there were two that did things like I described above and a few that tried other shenanigans here and there.
Even still, the bad outweighed the good and I woke up more than enough times with a bellyache.
Oh, and it takes up wayyy too much time! I couldn’t even play with my friends on sites like reiclub.com–I missed you guys :'(.
I prefer getting it and getting rid of it.
So I will stick with my other four and a half occupations for now 