Stop collecting videos. Start understanding the numbers.
Learn real estate investing in Riverside with a question to answer, not a library to finish. Choose the skill you need next, from running calculations to planning repairs, and go straight to the lessons that cover it.
Choose a learning topicWhat's standing between you and your next decision?
- Financial freedom: put your goals on paper.
- Deal analysis: work through the numbers.
- Rehab and flipping: plan the work before it starts.
- Deal finding: study seller marketing.
- Private lending: examine notes and due diligence.
- AI for investors: sharpen prompts and examine decisions.
- ADU investing: work through plans, costs and permitting.
- Mobile homes: study buying, repairs and paperwork.
How much income do I need and what should I measure?
How do I build a repeatable deal pipeline?
How do I evaluate repayment and collateral risk?
How do I get useful AI help and verify its output?
Start where you are. Know what to study next.
New to investing? I'd start with Financial Freedom and Deal Analysis: set your goals, then learn the numbers. Already evaluating properties? Go straight to the topic behind the decision you're facing.
For private lending, start with the calculator. Learn How to Lend requires a basic financial calculator class first. Calculate Better Deals covers that foundation.
See Calculate Better DealsOne question or a full course? Choose your depth.
- Read: explore public topic pages and blog articles.
- Work through a class: browse Classes for paid curriculum, recorded lessons and course materials.
- Learn as a member: classes are included today with FIRE Starter and FIRE Builder.
- Learn in the room: Wednesday FOCUS pairs one speaker with one practical skill.
Start with the format that fits what you need to understand.
Read the blogPut the worksheet beside the lesson.
- Set Goals and Find Your FIRE Number: use expense worksheets and a five-year plan to work through your goals.
- Calculate Better Deals: practice payments and balances with financial calculator drills.
- Automate Your Deal Finding!: study list building, mail and seller websites.
- How to Use AI as a Tool for Better Decisions: work on prompts, marketing and deal analysis.
Get into the details behind the decision.
- How to Flip Houses: study property walks, scopes of work and contractors.
- Learn How to Lend: examine promissory notes, sample documents and due diligence.
- ADU class: work through design, costs, permits and financing.
- 3 Days on How to Flip Mobile Homes: study buying, rehabbing, negotiating, selling and financing.
Browse all classes to compare the lessons and materials for your next area of study.
Browse all classesUse AI to think through the work, not make the call for you.
Build the lists, mail, follow-up, and tracking your deal search has been missing.
Turn your expenses, income, and goals into a real estate plan with a number behind it.
Check the park, title, systems, purchase math, and exit before you buy the mobile home.
Learn the note, collateral, document, and due-diligence questions before money goes out.
Work the payment, yield, note, and refinance math before you commit.
Test the lot, rules, costs, permits, and pro forma before you build an ADU.
Learn real estate investing in Riverside
Want real estate investing education in the Inland Empire with a practical skill to focus on? Join us at the FIRE Center on Wednesday.
FOCUS runs 6 to 7 PM Pacific: one speaker, one practical skill. Come earlier for Deal Room from 4 to 5 PM and Power Hour dinner and networking from 5 to 6 PM. Doors open at 3:45 PM.
Your first Wednesday is free, once per person.
Claim my free WednesdayStart with Financial Freedom for goals and Deal Analysis for numbers. Calculate Better Deals includes finance basics and practice exercises with an HP 10bII or the 10bii app.
Yes. Public topic pages and blog articles are separate from the paid class curriculum.
Classes are included today with both FIRE Starter and FIRE Builder membership.
A basic financial calculator class is required first. Calculate Better Deals covers that foundation.
FOCUS runs every Wednesday from 6 to 7 PM Pacific at the FIRE Center. The address is 1660 Chicago Ave STE M2, Riverside, CA 92507.
One skill. One place to start.
Pick the question in front of you and start with the lessons, worksheets or class that help you work through it.
Choose a learning topicYour first Wednesday is free
Visit the FIRE Center in Riverside or join Deal Room and FOCUS on Zoom.