It's a fact that those who travel down the real estate investor path have one ultimate aim in mind: total financial independence. But while this is the common uniting thread in the way they do pretty much anything, different real estate investors have different ideas about how to get there. This is why many tend to either take a really long time to get rich, or simply stop as they are getting there because the going is too tough.

As a real estate investor who has become rich by practicing what he preaches, I can both understand the problems involved and the mental set that causes them. Investors of any kind are naturally cautious and quite rightly so and real estate investors are even more cautious than the rest.