A little history or how it all began

The most important thing is to take action. Stop wining and looking for excuses, get off your but and do it. If you put your mind to it you can achieve anything you dream up.

I came to USA in November 1998. I had one suitcase full of my earthly possessions and $200 in my pocket. I came from a small country on the Baltic Sea called Lithuania (Lietuva). Long story short I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Everything I have I had to work for. Life was hard in the beginning, no job, no car (and you need to have a car in Atlanta to drive to work) no credit history, new country and new language.

About one year later my wife joined me here. In 2002 we bought our first home in which we still live. Sometime in 2004 I picked up a book by Rober Kiyosaki called “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and our journey into real estate investing began.

Being a curious person I started reading everything I can find about real estate investing. I found tons and tons of information. I found out that there is million and one way to make money in real estate, but I was not able to find any single source of information which would outline all steps. There was no step by step guide to real estate investing. People who wrote books never did it in practice and the infomercial gurus did it so long ago that it did not matter anymore. So you have to create your own step by step manual on how to invest form all the bits of information you learn.

One thing is clear by now – there is no get rich quick way, even real estate investing is hard work. It is hard work but the pay is good too. Anyhow after about a year of reading books, internet sites and message boards we bought our first rental property.

The best thing about it was that we did it. We took action, we started on our path of financial freedom, but we never stopped learning. I constantly talk to people about investing, listen to their advice, buy books and tapes, read and post on message boards. So education is a good thing, but it all comes down to one thing – can you actually do it? Can you sign on the dotted line?