I had to reach a low point of realizing that my life/potential was going to be wasted pursuing a paycheck and promotions.

Billionaires who promoted it will be hated and blamed for people loosing their retirement savings. 

I never received a single response from an actual property owner — just self-promotions from PMCs or people affiliated with PMCs.

They're all good answers that matched the "it depends" mentality that I was expecting.

I think we can promote in this posting is only for Real estate questions. 

I think my skills in mental health counseling and healthcare management are going to be surprisingly relevant to real estate investing (at least I hope so). 

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.

@Jonathan Greene we've been promoting this tactic for over 15 years:)

These often include a preferred return for the investors and then a pre-determined cash flow distribution schedule between the sponsor and investors that includes the cash flow distribution waterfall based on either the IRR or EMx and possibly a GP Promote. 

On that note, if anyone is interested in tools for self-mastery, I highly recommend exploring breathwork—it’s an incredible modality for building mental resilience and focus.