Do what you know and enjoy, getting creative doesn't necessarily make you more money, it likely means you are taking on more risk and playing a game you aren't prepared for.Everyone's goal in real estate is to create a machine, where in, you stick $1 in the front and it spits $1.20 out the back. 

Go meet with someone at a local firm with "Lending" or "Mortgage" or "Funding" in the company name (that right there tells you their #1 priority isn't "open another checking account" or "establish an ATM machine location" at an institutional level), that lives and lends in the community they serve.

You are in a great situation being ambitious, young, single, no kids, and flexible ... yes, starting out is very difficult as it can take years before you start to see the fruits of your hard work, especially before you lock down your first investments; just have to keep at it and have faith that your hard work will pay off in the long haul, so long as you keep at it.You mentioned sales ...

It allows for creativity and enjoying the fruits of your labor.

I’m looking forward to making some fruitful connections with fellow BP members.  

Enjoy the fruits of your labor today, exit as the market is high and demand is high, reinvent your strategy, turnkey as a lifestyle is something you will soon be able to capture, seems that you may be leaning in this direction fairly strong.You need to calculate your risk and rewards, you time saved, your ability to maximize your current exposure and define if the risk model is greater or lesser.

It's a machine, a process.

All was going great until tenant called 2 days age and said her discharge hose from the washer machine was backing up from the drain behind machine.

There's lots of personal info there that could be used for identity theft (date of birth, SSN, current address) AND email is insecure (meaning hackers can intercept and use without anyone even knowing this has occurred.One secure means to electronically transport that kind of data to you safely and securely isFAX ITA fax comes directly from one fax machine to the other without being stored anywhere in between. 

they aren't expensive and provide a place for somebody like myself to have a fax machine that is a crucial part of investing out of state.