(Global) Take a real estate investor out to coffee or lunch

  

Everyone’s circumstances in real estate are different whether it is age, gender, education, lack of experience in investing or anything else. We all need mentoring especially when starting off on this road less traveled and the best way I have found is also one of the cheapest. 

Call a friend, neighbor or anyone else you know (or even better you don’t know) who owns real estate and buy them a Starbucks coffee or lunch while asking them questions about their real estate investing experience. I have personally done this hundreds of times with people all over and have gained an incredible amount of knowledge and insight. It is extremely rare for someone not to accept your offer and most are only too glad to help. 

Unlike school, you will not be penalized for duplicating someone else’s success and in fact, it could help you from making some on your own.  I know people who have saved tens of thousands of dollars in mistakes by using this one simple technique. The person you speak with may refer you to someone else that could make all the difference in your next real estate purchase.