It's an age-old question. The answer is: "How much do you need and by when?" The hardest thing for the beginning investor to understand is that he/she is in the driver's seat. When goals are set and commitments made, then you just follow the plan, step-by-step, until you reach your destination, whatever that might be.

A few years ago we were following the case study of a California woman who had made real estate development her primary wealth vehicle. She had it down to a science. For every lot she developed and sold, she made $25,000, more or less. Her goal was very specific--one million dollars a year in earnings. That meant that she had to follow her cycle 40 times a year. That's just about one development lot per week (with some time off for holidays and getaways).

She did it like clock work, because she knew the precise steps to follow on a daily basis--and she followed them. For every such case there are thousands of others where people have lesser goals--but still succeed just as well from the stand point of their own personal needs and circumstances. At one time it was estimated that as many as many as 5% of the adult population of the United States owned and operated at least one income property other than their own home. Such people did not often make a million dollars a year as a real estate investor, but many thousands of them regularly earned hundreds or even thousands of dollars of extra income each month through that rental home or small multi-unit they were conscientiously tending.

Setting goals for earnings in the real estate field is no different than in other fields, except that the formula "IDEAL" gives you greater opportunity for leveraged yield than perhaps any other kind of investment. This is especially true for the tens of thousands of eager and ambitious investors who are willing to put into deals all the money they have--nothing. Where courage, energy, creative enterprise, and sweat equity are the only assets to invest, real estate is perhaps the only viable alternative to attaining the American Dream.

Whether you are targeting a hundred dollars a month in profits, or a hundred-thousand, there are models in the real estate investing field that you can apply to attain your goals. It is the purpose of this course to provide a comprehensive training experience in such models so that you can exercise the options you want to attain the goals you need.

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