To borrow from a favorite Baseball movie of mine, "If you build it, they will come".My advice is to show up on a regular basis to every meetup you can find in your area.

Working on adding a second property to our portfolio.Andrew (Carol Stream IL)

So now I want to take this seriously here in the USA and start generating a revenue stream for my recently expanded family ( I gave birth to a baby girl last August).

My goal is to work full-time in my field and use my savings to invest in real estate which will eventually hopefully become a passive income stream.

I got it on my last purchase just by asking for it and framing it as "You've previously bought this multifamily to generate an income stream.  

We are looking forward to doing some light wholesaling and maybe some flips eventually but my main goal is to target the passive income stream and get enough rentals to supplement our retirement plans.

As for the more typical and stream-line brokers, what would you recommend as far as residential goes, it may offer good programs for new agents, competitive and reasonable brokerage fees, great enviornment, etc.

I'm in the process of developing my business plan for the purpose of finding and acquiring buy and hold single family (possibly multi family), for the purposes of building a passive income stream in and around Houston, TX.  

The goal at the moment is to have somewhere nice to live, while also having some passive income streams to compliment our work salaries/pensions in the future.

I currently own an insurance agency, so I do and will continue to have a pretty decent revenue stream as I dive into this.