Tom’s Experience with our Real Estate Investing Course

Tom’s Experience with our Real Estate Investing Course

April is Investor’s Month. We thought it would be a great time to share a student’s personal thoughts after taking our Real Estate Investing course as well as our Creating a Successful Business Plan course!

An ed2go story by Tom S:

As someone who has been working overseas in many countries, I find it very difficult to schedule my time home in the United States to coincide with taking education courses. When I did work in the United States, I enrolled in a variety of business and classes but found they were only dedicated to having fun. My frustration ended the day I found ed2go.

I’m a real estate investor that has been winging it for almost ten years. I finally decided I needed to learn how to become a successful investor from the professionals. The first class I enrolled in was Real Estate Investing. Upon successful completion, I was so pleased with the knowledge I obtained and was excited to return home to buy an investment property! I now evaluate properties from a whole new perspective and it takes me longer to decide on a purchase because of all of the important facts I learned.

It was refreshing to know that my teacher was a successful real estate investor and supported some of the techniques I had already been using. Also, in the past, I was always leery of joining any kind of investment club, but after advice from my instructor, I took a chance when I returned home. It was also great to learn from real-life investing success stories as well as stories that weren’t so successful. The professional contacts, alone, were worth the money I spent on the two classes!

I’m now a more discriminating investor and evaluate properties from an educated perspective. My chances of making a profitable investment are better as a result. The only drawback is that once I returned to Australia, I was disappointed there weren’t any additional Real Estate Investment courses with ed2go. I really enjoyed them!

My daughter also wants to start her own business and recently prepared a business plan for my review. I had little knowledge of developing a business plan and wanted to be able to provide her with sound advice. The obvious option was to take another online class from ed2go! I’m now enrolled in Creating a Successful Business Plan! Most of this material is all new to me, so I’m enjoying learning more about the financial side of starting a business and knowing that I will be able to help my daughter in her future business adventures.

Since taking my first course, I have become a walking and talking advertisement for ed2go. You may be surprised how many Aussie’s are now signed up! Too bad I didn’t know about this when I was in the jungles of Angola!

 -Tom S.