Becoming a real estate investor is not as difficult as you think even though you don’t have the capital and experience. Sound too good to be true, right? There are many ways of getting started in real estate investing. One of the easier and getting popular way is to become a real estate bird dog and get started learning real estate investment from seasoned investors.
You should consider real estate bird dogging as the first step of your investing career if you are serious to become a real estate investor. Why? Because real estate investment requires you to have the knowledge and experience in addition to sufficient capital. As a real estate bird dog, you get the opportunity to expose yourself to real estate investment without buying properties. It is basically a risk free method of real estate investing. Depending on how much effort you are willing to put in, a bird dog can easily make few hundred to thousand dollars a month by finding profitable deals for the investors.
Besides, you can start your bird dogging in your spare time, mainly during your weekend without having to give up your day job. And you get the opportunity to sharpen your personal attributes especially communication skills during the process.
If you intend to be a part time real estate investor while holding a day job, please be reminded that there is no quick buck in real estate investment. It is crucial that you treat your real estate investing as a business as it may take months if not years for your business to bring in significant cash flows before you can quit your 9 to 5 job. So, it does pay for you to become a full time real estate investor.
Don’t give up your dream to become a real estate investor if you are not there yet as real estate bird dogging is a great way to start your investing in real estate. Cairnhill 16