Note that active income isn't the same thing as non-passive income, it's lower bar that just requires that it's a business activity that isn't just entirely passive. 

Is your goal to use being an agent for your own personal investments or actively try and grow your agent business to eventually leave your W2?

There are several companies that send letters and some are active on Bigger Pockets.However, I would caution you to set expectations appropriately.1.

Example; I am invested in a fund that does active option plays on Tesla.

(You are automatically an affiliate when you sign up) That being said, I'm not a very active affiliate.

Quote from @Feroz Penangwala: Hi everyone, I’m curious—how many of you are actively closing real estate deals right now?

Our community is actively identifying and investing in off-market deals, sharing the cost of virtual assistants and direct mail, sponsoring deals, investing our own capital, and having multiple group calls and webinars every week with institutional analysts, real estate and SEC attorneys, regional banks, private lenders, and other experts specifically to discuss and analyze deals within the community.

Like @Charles LeMaireand @Justin Kane mentioned Joe Fairless and @Theo Hicks have a great book that goes over every step of the process on how to become an apartment syndicator.Are you looking for a more active or passive approach?

I vet a lot of passive offerings and am particularly active in MHP, SS, and MF. 

I have a template that I provide and they can either complete the template or just give me their documents and I'll complete the template before prepping the taxes.Self Managed, High Volume, Very Organized - these folks keep up on their activity.