I run Forged Home Buyers, a San Antonio wholesaling business, and my business partner is an agent with Virtus Realty. 

I work a W-2 day job and have my own electrical business.

I knew I wanted to develop an empire, scale my business, and achieve 100,000 units.

I am currently a junior business marketing major with a concentration in professional sales at Samford University.

Quote from @Benjamin Finney: Chris, interesting niche on non-performing mortgages/ rtl's.

Quote from @Gregory Wilson: A few things there, Brendan.First, an LLC with you as a member and your (wife, son, pal, etc.) partner as a 1% member will file a Form 1065 which is about one tenth as likely to be audited by the IRS as a Form 1040 with a Schedule E rental activity (which I presume you will attempt to show is an active business).Second, you want an LLC because when your local Alabama handyman drives his girlfriend's uninsured truck into a van load of U of A medical school interns on I-22 when he goes  to get some shingles for your roof, on your business, you don't lose everything you have or ever will have to an uninsured claim. 

Quote from @Andrew Thomas: Quote from @Caleb Brown: I would focus on being an agent first and building that business.

Life and business are complicated.

Even as a broker there are many sleazy Account Executives that try to win my business with terms or extra compensation.

All the other real estate in my businesses are counted as assets minus the debt liabilities for net worth purposes and the business income that comes to me is counted as part of my personal income.