Focus on serving people first and you will get wealthy.

Do not flip them all, Wealth is built not flipped.

In the Golden Triangle, you'll pay up to €5,000+ per sq m for a villa because that's where wealthy Portuguese and foreigners, including celebrities, want to be.

I still had my near minimum wage job while doing all of this.I wish I could say that awesome start made me super wealthy, but I wasn't married to the right person and life took a serious southern turn by the time I was 21. 

I will have about $500K/year for the next few years that I would like to start investing to offset reduced income and build long term wealth (I just turned 37).

Does not matter the area, it's how you build the knowledge to capitalize in that area and how you navigate it are the ways to be wealthy in real estate in hard areas. 

I was introduced to Bigger pockets from a coworker that hasn't started investing but she knew I was interested in building wealth! I

I understand that almost half will be gone with taxes and fess and it will grow to millions if i leave it,  but my thought process is I am going to have to pay the taxes no mater what, yes I can withdraw less to be in a lower tax bracket, but I do not plan on being in a lower tax bracket as I get older as I want to grow my wealth. I

Term should be purchased by everyone when they are young and healthy, generally speaking this is when most of our wealth is POTENTIAL.

. , Wealth is built, not flipped :) Good luck