After three more years of educating myself and learning the ropes from other investors, I decided it was time to begin investing for myself in earnest. At age 25, my wife and I purchased our very first house. Because we were a young couple and had little savings we lived in this house and continued to save for a second house, which we purchased in 1995. The first house was then rented and thus my journey into Real Estate Investing began.

Over the subsequent years I continued to learn through reading, conversations with other investors, and trial and error. I learned how to find and obtain the best properties and, the best tenants. I also learned how to structure the best financing deals based on my then current objectives.

From 1995 through 2002 I was able to obtain many more properties and now I have a portfolio valued at over $1.5M. When these properties eventually become free from mortgages they will generate a passive income of many thousands of dollars per month.

I was able to achieve these results on a part-time basis. My full-time job, working as an Electrical Engineer, left little time for other pursuits. However, in 2001, with the Real Estate investments doing as well as my full-time job, I left my engineering career in favor of my true passion: Investing in Real Estate, helping others understand the power of Real Estate investing and, helping them start down the path towards their own successful investing career.