But they won't allow you to retrade on it and if you back out because of what you find, you'll have to sacrifice your earnest money. 

It also takes sacrifice.  

Instead of asking questions about passive or active you need to ask yourself what sacrifices can I make to get started.

If you buy real estate, you will spend hours and days and weeks and months of your life dealing with it… Home repairs, guests,… An investment really has to be pretty amazing to sacrifice all that time for itThe houses I own I bought many years ago at dirt cheap prices and dirt cheap mortgage rates.

I don't want to list everywhere and sacrifice both time and money.

I lovenmy privacy but am willing to sacrifice that for a year or two and buy somewhere else and pay half of my new mortgage with ADU cash flow

My sacrifice… no haircuts and no fast food. 1 job full time, 1 full time side hustle. 0 debt at the time other than student loans.

If you want to start investing today (everyone does) what can you sacrifice to get it done? 

I sacrifice today in order to reap the rewards in the future. 

You have to want it , this means sacrifice .