About BootStrap Learning....

Tall boots may have a tab, loop or handle at the top known as a bootstrap, allowing one to use fingers or a tool to provide better leverage in pulling the boots on. The saying "to pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was already in use during the 1800s as an example of an impossible task. Bootstrap as a metaphor, meaning to better oneself by one's own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922. This metaphor spawned additional metaphors for a series of self-sustaining processes that proceed without external help.

Bootstrapping in business is to start a business without external help/capital. Startups that bootstrap their business fund development of their company through internal cash flow and are cautious with their expenses.

Real Estate Sales is that kind of business. A business that can be deemed successful as a full time job or a side enterprise. There are many people out there selling all sorts of 'magic beans' guaranteed to insure that you 'make it big' in real estate. These touts always start with a good teaser and end with the selling of a package that will reveal the 'secrets' to easy riches (which for them seem to come from selling 'packages' rather than the practice of real estate).

Benjamin Franklin once said, "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." There may be no free lunch, but with hard work and the applied use of that knowledge, you may even surprise yourself at what you can accomplish.