I personally recommend looking into the Columbus OH market - good population growth, lots of job opportunities in a good mix of industries, and strong rental demand.

If the inexperienced investor knew how much work, effort, time, analysis, negotiation, organization, capital, and knowledge it takes to successfully find, identify, evaluate, and close on a property that fits the criteria that gurus falsely claim they see 100’s of every day, 99% of them would abandon their real estate dreams” and pursue ostrich farms, mink breeding, or setting up a “down line” to sell condensed cleaning products that their “upline” has an exclusive distributorship on for the southwestern quadrant of Bisbee, Arizona.  

What do you make per hour at your day job?

This is a great job on this.

@Luis Puente Becoming a Real Estate agent is a full time job if you want to be successful.

well I am one.. and pretty sure we have had props in Euclid.first one we had gouged the heck out of us.. second one is small shop and she has done a decent job if you ask me.

. $250 per turn would be for larger unit and very good job.  

RE is a get rich slow game and there are increasing number of people talking about how difficult it is to retire from your day job even with large numbers of rentals because cash flow is thin.On the one hand there is the Small But Mighty portfolio mentality which I believe is a book in the BP store by Chad Carson.

I currently enjoy my full time job in health care, but would love to cut down on my hours in another 5-10 years.

I’m sure they have people who do that kind of thing as part of their job description.