I am interested in passive income through rentals, and learning how I can use the 1031 exchange to trade up into small multifamily.

If it is a trade you seek as opposed to a g/c or handy man, reach out to local custom homebuilders, the guys doing a few houses a year,  in general they like to promote the people who do good jobs for them.

Flipping PropertiesIf the primary objective of your real estate business, or one of your real estate businesses, is to buy, potentially fix up an existing property and resell it within one year, the Internal Revenue Service can consider that to be an active trade or business.

Been in the trades for about 20.

With this route, you trade on percentage and points for their experience.It could give you a good start without your house as collateral.

When wholesaling, it would be important to disclose to the seller that you are a real estate agent, but in this particular case you are not acting as an agent, but as a principal, operating solely in your own best interest, with no agency duty owed the seller.if the seller, their attorney, the real estate commission, etc. is able, after the fact, to make the case that in your wholesaling activity you were not a principal, but an intermediary, then you would be potentially subject to fine, license suspension or revocation, liability for seller's lost income, and possibly treble damages for deceptive trade practices.  

By the time you realized it, you have mastered all trades of real estate.We, as human, tend to take the path of least resistance.

Given there are only about 20,000 community owners in the country I think that qualifies as more than "some people" without including numbers of people that sought some other source for help.The national trade association, MHI, has spent considerable time and effort educating their members on this issue, as have most of the various state trade associations.

I've dabbled in options trading and cryptocurrency but I'm switching my strategy up and planning to build businesses and real estate assets so I can have multiple streams of income while working a 9-5.

I'm in the HVAC field by trade, so I am well connected relative to most of the big ticket items I'll be dealing with.