Passive Investing or Active Investing: What makes more profit?

[Derik S.]

My fellow investors, and RE pros, I need your opinion. This would also be a good question for #AskBP. While I would think active investing (you know, wholesaling, flipping, being a landlord) as well as value adding to the property, would deliver a fat check, I would think passive investing would be equally as beneficial, especially for beginners, as well as more opportunity to invest in other markets than the one you reside in. Passively investing has seemed to do Grant Cardone a lot of favors, that's for sure. 

[Ned Carey]

Active investing as you call it is not actually investing at all. It is a job. It can be a very high paying job, but it is a job none the less. 

Generally Flipping wholesaling and other "active" types of investing will tend to build cash faster. But like I said it is a job. 

Buy and hold and other types of passive investing are the way to build wealth long term but do not generate near as much cash in the short term. (By the way, holding SFHs as rentals isn't totally passive. It does take work even with a property manager, I still put it in the passive category)