Everyone shutting me down?

[Camron Cottam]

I am here trying to get started on the path of real estate and am finding that everyone I talk to (minus people on BP) are almost trying to push me away from the real estate world. Comments like "being a landlord sucks", "it's too much work for how much money you make", or people telling me straight up "you don't want to do that". 

I am not afraid of hard work, and there's always doubters when it comes to wanting to do anything, but I'm curious as to why real estate has such a bad reputation? Or is it just the relatively small sample size of people I've talked too?