I've been able to find roughly 1/month without investing time or money into my own marketing, but there is a definitely ceiling if I'm relying solely on the MLS and wholesalers.I'm hoping that with a three-pronged approach, with 3 streams of leads coming into my business, I can find 36 deals in a year.So 3 primary questions around marketing through mailers come to mind:1.

Its never too early to start thinking about multiple income streams.

I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with buying a cashflow stream; it's dependent on your goals.

When I find myself swimming up stream, I look for opportunities that are emerging elsewhere. 

I decided recently to work on getting my real estate license and becoming an agent to help me learn the business more and have a better stream of income to help me in this pursuit.

I would not touch it and list it on zillow as an income investment or an ideal house hack canidate and the reason why is because i experience an endless stream of folks who pay too much for rehab properties, not knowing the real cost of fixup. 

Gabriel Benavidez when you create passive streams of income and they can pay for the luxuries.

My goal in real estate is to provide a second stream of income from cash flow via a buy and hold strategy with single family and multi-family rental properties.

They could 1031 exchange their properties into a passive income stream such as a DST.

They are jobs.If you want to create a low effort income stream (I would not refer to even buy and hold RE as truly passive) then BRRRR is a good approach.