In his interview with me, John Paul Moses, who is the founder of our Local Memphis Investors Group, was willing to give us some tips about how to start as a real estate investor. After reading Rich Dad, Poor Dead by Robert Kiyosaki he decided to start as a real estate investor. The book says to do this you need some preparation, so he went to the Internet and stocked every bit of information from the articles, news groups and discussion forums. By that time he started a long term friendship with Matt Scott who runs a great website called dealmakerscafe.com. That’s how he learned the meaning of the word escrow and what the difference was between a mortgage and a trust and real estate basic terminology. The Internet might be one learning ground. If you buy a real estate course you have to be very careful. The first course John Paul bought was in his opinion the worst real estate course and never did a deal from knowledge gained in that course. But at least he learned real estate terminology and spending $400 on that course proved to him that he was willing to invest in his education.
John Paul started by making an announcement in a Sunday paper just saying real...