Hello,Since I live in a more expensive market, for doing lease options I would imagine I would need to target professionals such as doctors, lawyers, small business owners, management people, who either have issues with credit or are just getting started in their respective careers and little credit history.

@Justin Guidry,Good Morning Justin,Very new to investing, but I have been a caregiver in two ALF in Lafayette.Day to day duties were to check on every resident every two hours, assist them to and from activities if needed, such as the in home salon, church, etc. taking the residents to doctor's appointments and the light houskeeping of the rooms. 

These might attract less affluent white collar tenant, such as nurses, new doctors, new lawyers and accountants.

I'd say if you have a very specific, highly technical job you want like a lawyer or doctor, then go to college.

My name is Paul Willis, I am a doctor in Los Angeles, surf on my free time, and am currently beginning to process to become a buy-and-hold investor. 

I don't make a huge amount of money like a doctor or lawyer.

Me: I am a traditional Chinese Medicine doctor + clinic owner, surfer, world traveler, and mama (/servant) to an especially lovely Kelpie pup.

I am starting my fourth year in medical school this summer, and will be applying to residency programs this fall, interviewing through the winter, and will find out where my girlfriend and I will be starting our lives as doctors in the early spring.

Instead they work for someone else, trade stocks/bonds on their own and are very good at what they do and enjoy it (read get paid well for their skills).I also know people who never have worked for someone else and make as much money as a doctor would at 30, running their own company, with zero debt or college education.Personally I’m somewhere in the middle.

I am contributing my maximum to 401k with a 6% match and a Health savings account to use for doctors visits.