@Kevin Stone , first off, keep your dead end job until your real estate agent job takes off for an extended period of time and you have some savings to help you ride out the slower times.Second, what do your finances look like?

My husband and I rent a 2br/1 bath condo in northern Virginia (30min drive to downtown DC, 45 min metro ride) for $1500 a month. 

Or like a friend of mine said to his boyfriend "I'm going on this ride/adventure, you coming or should I drop you off at the bus stop ?"

I like the Milwaukee area but it was a crazy ride up there.

Then spend some time looking into old RTA judgements so you can see just how easy it is for tenants in Ontario to get a free ride while a landlord suffers.Then you develop an absolutely bulletproof tenant screening program.

Fast forward to two weeks ago and I find myself wanting to catch a ride on the REI train yet again.

You really need to get out and ride the areas a lot.

He has told us that he doesn't plan on leaving within the next couple years, so we are just riding him out building equity until he decides to move. 

It's about a 45 minute train ride from there which is not bad at all, especially for the cheaper property in Puyallup!

were I don't think you can do that in a corp.you trade the SEI tax for the event if you have a crummy year.. you can go back and get whatever tax's you paid back to offset that years loss's I know for me personally when the world came to a near end in 08 to 2010 and we had to take back loans that we lost on and sell props to pay banks at major loss's I was able for 3 years to claw back to 04 and get almost all the tax money I paid in the way of refunds and it was substantial low 6 figure refunds annually for 3 years.. helped me ride out a crappy economy.