When I say made, I mean take home after marketing, and paying the managing broker.To make $50K you would likely have to have commissions of about $100K which means selling about $3.5 million of RE.

I think you're pretty lucky in that, while your wife may not understand REI and doesn't care to, she also hasn't put the brakes on your ability to move forward.  

Still made enough after marketing, sales, contact negotiations, prep, etc. for like $2,000 profit shared between partner and myself. 

I went into analysis-paralysis looking at market after market.

I was looking to get a house and what made me pump the brakes is when I put an offer in and the seller said they do not accept Lima One.

It can also be costly paying someone for the gas since constant braking and going with 3-point turns, u-turns, etc really does use up so much more gas than you think than driving on a highway or how most people normally would.

Dave Ramsey gives a lot of solid advice, but in many areas he teaching you to drive with the emergency brake on.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/meggentaylor/2018/04/27/the-best-and-worst-cities-to-make-money-on-airbnb/#3375e7fb2aa7 Here’s a Forbes article that brakes it down by the numbers.

These people have Police RAP sheets bigger then you lawyer archive, for them to brake into your house and get arrested is like for you crossing street in unmarked location.

Is there other ways to brake into real estate investment?