In a word, the wealthy aren't any more charitable than the rest of the population, and I doubt they are more likely to spend money that they don't *have* to, on average, than other classes.

I have a wealthy friend who is willing to give me the $ to cover the 1/2 to satisfy my aunts share.

1 - If you aren't wealthy, start with Options and Subject Tos.

The fastest way to real wealth is to focus on all 3 at the same time.The only time I'd recommend buying a garbage property that will cash flow is if you have immediate short term plans to reinvest that cash flow into a property that will appreciate and you should me moving as quickly as you can into building equit through mortgage paydown. 

As many have said before, wealth is the buy and hold side, income is the Fix and Flip. 

If I were to find I don't like the phone calls, then can just pay a property manager $1,000 or so a year and still take home roughly $11,000 per year.If you think that you might like it, just look up the lists of wealthy people and see how many of those have real estate listed as the prime or secondary source of that wealth!

Most of those people are very wealthy for doing so.As far as partnership, that is why I'm on this forum.

As a result, I am looking to parlay the income I do make from it and put it into more passive means of generating wealthI run my own businesses as well and, though my revenue streams are not quite that volatile, I too am dependant on the business cycles of my clients.  

In the medium-to-long term, I am looking for active income, both short and long-term wealth. I

Still not wealthy?