If you do go, it's because you have a sick relative somewhere who needs to see you before they go on to glory -- the best kind of story for that is an expensive one, like a blind half-brother with a rare blood disease who is only free of constant pain in this one remote high-altitude institute in the Cascades...something so outlandish no one would make it up that at the same time implicitly explains why you need the rent checks to be on time.

To me, it's all about generating additional streams of income.

Knowing you have multiple streams of income makes work challenges just a little easier to manage.So glad you've already plugged into the podcasts - just a wealth of information there that helped me so much when I started out - and honestly, it still does today. 

The work you mentioned is absolutely negligible and you will open a real pandora's box bringing inspectors into your home and start an endless stream of trouble.

Well done on your journey to date - certainly so many people here on BP share your goal of passive income (or at least multiple streams of income) to minimize the risk of leaving their day job.

I suspect this may vary from person to person, but my experience has been that real estate brokers tend to be upstream of a lot of business so the folks that are downstream tend to want to meet with producing real estate agents to see if they can be on the receiving end of the down stream business.

What good is anything that you can’t afford to do consistently if your goal is to have a steady, flowing stream of income?

Therefore, no matter which field you get into look to be on the cutting edge and keep up on education as well as many income streams as possible.Good luck and best wishes!

You can stretch this out for however long allowing him to have a steady stream of income into his retirement.

Lenders and property owners/managers love these additional income streams.