There is a gentleman on this thread that stated that this takes hard work and dedication!

Being a real estate investor takes work and dedication as well and even attending meetings and seminars on the weekends and weeknights to network and not so different from hosting open houses.

I am starting to dedicate a decent amount of time to cold-calling as it's hard to find deals on the market. 

What you can't make up for in experience make up for in motivation and dedication.

@Jen Alden Wilmington Island don’t have high Home Owners Association fees (most of the neighborhoods) which means your payment fully dedicated to interest, principle, taxes, insurance.

He has dedicated is life to minimizing taxes and has a lot to say on how to or not to use SDIRA.Once we became proficient at real estate investing, we used every opportunity to take money out of our 401k because we could make so much more in real estate. 

I'm in the process of hiring and training so that I will have more time to dedicate to real estate. 

Considering this is your first purchase as well as investment, there is a lot of 'hand holding' and education that will cost time and dedication, to have the same 2-3 agents compete for the same sale, shopping the same MLS inventory, and still dedicate as efforts to one client would be completely unfair. 

In addition, with the limited time you have, it needs to be dedicated on focused efforts that yield results. 

Hey BP,I'm thinking of starting a meet-up dedicated solely to multifamily/apartment investing (>$1M loan amount).