Back when I was working my 9-5 job, I was working towards eventually escaping the rat race. I knew that real estate was the answer for me but I kept holding myself back because… I had no experience, zero money, and I didn’t know anybody who invested. So I realized that if I wanted to get skin in the game, I'd have to start networking with people who already had the resources and experience. So I started attending local meet-up groups, and not even that much! From there I met a guy who then introduced me to my future real estate partner… And it so happened to be that he lived near me and invested in Mobile Home Parks. Eventually, I learned how to decipher whether a deal was good or not, so I decided I would make a deal with him… Which was for every deal that I would bring him that he ended up closing on, to hook me up with an acquisition fee. And next thing you know he gives me a call about a deal I gave him, saying... "Hey, Derek my operating partner backed out because the ...