Creating great wealth is possible through compound interest, labor on real estate and buying investment property.

Those 5 strategies are what I'm seriously considering, all good in my opinion just need to make the right choice for my first.PLEASE ADVICE "You can get rich wholesaling and flipping but you become wealthy owning real estate" - some author in some bookHey Isaac! 

They buy a product to use, like buying a hammer that will make them a craftsman.It's pitiful, just pitiful to hear newbies, especially young people trying to start out to make a living in this world, much less getting wealthy, and referring to guru crap or some technique or system as an education.I've never met a wealthy man who only used a shovel to make money.

People get wealthy investing in Chicago real estate no matter what the asset class or neighborhood.  

I get that a wealthy doctor who invests in real estate would prefer to be hands-off and purchase a turn-key A or B class place with little to no headaches; I'm simply a guy who can handle the B.S. a C-class brings and I deal with the added nonsense all for the superior cash flow. 

It will be interesting to see, if and when things go bad for real estate, if regulators start to dig into the owner occupancy issues.I had been thinking this was probably a very wealthy person playing the long appreciation game, parking money to also benefit from depreciation and other losses. 

Our strengths would be managing long distance teams and raising capital as I oversee teams/projects and know wealthy individuals who also don't know where to invest.

The reason why so much wealth is created with real estate is because of leverage (i.e. debt).

This is a different market altogether, or so it seems.I've generally been a buy and hold investor, but no chance that's working in this market, and certainly not on the east or west coasts.I've been dabbling in creative financing lately, things @Eliott Elias suggested above, but am new to it and here to learn.Your question about income vs wealth is a good one too, to find clarity.

I’ll give it to Soda, brilliant young men and women that are making property owners and themselves incredibly wealthy.