Employers want to know or at least think that you are all in on their corporate mission and may take a side business as taking your attention away when you are working for them. 

Here are a few tips to consider on your journey.1)Find out where the local RE clubs are and figure out who is doing well in your market & who has been thru a few real estate cycles.2) Learn how to use a financial calculator (HP10bii) & how to apply it to investing.3) Study how to negotiate.4) Learn how to sell 5) Study Marketing6) Understand title 7) Learn how to value a property8) Nurture relationships with potential investors & private lenders9) Learn property management skills10) Make it mission to become extremely unique in your market on solving problems that will pay you well.

I volunteer for mission, not $, and have likely saved organization >$100,000 over that time.

But so what if it takes longer.. go on a mission to do it...there will be a deal that will rise up.... people are still foreclosing or in pre-foreclosure who need help out of their situation.

., then there’s no way I would have the time to scale up to 10.So I figured out ways to outsource all of those activities, which freed me up to focus on the mission of 10 houses.So how does that apply to your situation?

Start talking to investors, just as a fact finding mission and find out what questions they are constantly asking. 

Should you decide to fight it as I did, you end up begin forced to go to 1660 Mission Street to attend the Director's abatement meeting while you sit and wait for your property address to be called.

That way they can see family/friends before arriving at the new unit and getting caught up in missions/work.

.  :-)Good luck.We are similar in size and breadth to Justin. 20 units, 2 of which are STR, 4 zip codes (most units in Escondido, a SFR in Clairemont, a quad in Pt Loma, the STR duplex in Mission Beach). 

Hey Emmy,My client has properties with ADUs that are completely rented out in Reseda and Mission Hills.