Here is My Advice For the Beginning Real Estate Investor to Become Successfulby Ronald Starr
First, recognize that it will probably take several years of real estate investing before you will reach your personal financial goal. Assuming that you want to have enough income from your investments to not have to work for money, I estimate about 10-15 years, if you work part-time at it while having "a day job." If you get to a point where you can do it full time, it may take a few years less.
There are some investors who disagree with me on this. They apparently are very successful in a much shorter period of time. If you can imitate them, fine. But, the average investor will take, it seems to me, the kind of time that I just indicated.
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