Hanging around people that are actively doing it definitely helps. 

An email went out this morning with the code to active the perk!

Great to see you here and active on the platform!

PropertRadar has been a huge help in helping to identify lien position and active foreclosure auctions.

On that note, my son Jorge is actively wholesaling properties in Katy.

I have worked in recovery, but currently am retired and have rentals I would like to possibly rent to Oxford house- or possibly convert into sober living if it makes sense financially.

There is active development happening on the street, which is a great sign.

It sounds like you want more time, so active investing such as flipping or rehabbing might not be ideal.

Unfortunately many lenders will see this as a red flag and may not take the risk to lend you the rest of the money even if you use stated income program or bank statement program but those are for self employed borrowers who have active income from their business but write off to many expenses that when filling their taxes their net income is really low or sometimes negative.

This comes with time and experience but a book that helped me tremendously (not really a sales book, though) was "Boundaries" by Henry Cloud.The most common challenges for RE Agents early relate to generating leads and focusing on income producing activity.I would consider spending 50-75% of your side-hustle time on income generating activities.