In a few years, you'll have the choice between keeping the job (if you really love it) or leaving with a nice little nest egg to get you started (plus a bunch of RE experience that you can leverage if you decide to do that full time).Worst case, you finish school and decide to try RE full time.

At the same time though, I have to realize that I work way too much, and really don't feel comfortable making any type of transition into more "active" real estate investing... at least for the nest 5 years or so.I haven't been talked out of turnkey...

This could be with real estate but that is for another discussion.We have a decent nest egg to cover the year and retirement, great credit, no debt, but have never owned property.

However, that amount of excess is recent due to my wife becoming full time where she works, so no nest egg built up yet.

Be sure to build up a decent nest egg for emergency repairs like new roof, or furnace failure, six months vacancy, etc.

I am starting my business as a wholesaler, and as it grows, I will do fix & flip, buy and hold, & eventually apartment/commercial buildings.I am all excited about this business, because I meet people from every sphere, also being in my mid 50's, I need to build some residual income, to secure my nest egg for retirement.

I would work on establishing credit and create a nice "nest egg" of savings.

All these deals are a side business to grow my nest egg.

I plan to do that until I have a large enough nest egg that I am comfortable not setting aside more money.My ideal property is a multi-unit with all separate utilities.

Maybe flip a couple to get an initial nest egg and then go strictly for long-term cash flow properties.