This is the best way to gain it quickly.You can gain competence by reading, studying, and researching, but nothing beats actually steering the ship through a project or endeavor and seeing the results of the voyage unfold.The more competent you are, the more often and consistently you will make winning moves and decisions.Right along competence is confidence.Without confidence, it doesn’t matter how competent you are.

And when you get to be an Accredited investor you can then join the big syndicators and those deals with the right folks running the ship are nice passive investments. 

Not saying it cant be done because we know there are many who succeed at real estate with no formal education but we or for the most part we all graduated high school can read right do math and once U take some basic real estate course you can understand how real estate works.. especially landlording that takes not a whole heck of amount of advanced thought to under stand the concepts and execute.. of course some do better than others some scale.some happened to invest at the right time in the right areas and a rising tide raised all ships..

Since its a jeep, I would recommend that you jump ship now as its likely to only get worse with more issue.

On the other side, some days we are passing ships in the night.A few words on being passionate for a moment.

I'm not a realtor and am wondering how common it is for a buyer to switch agents or jump ship and buy with another agent.

Living near a port city and seeing all the trucks moving containers from the ships to the distribution centers says those fun toy drones will NEVER replace high capacity trucking.If we come to the point that only managers(Chiefs) can afford homes, condos and rentals, then where will all the little Indians go and what will the Chiefs actually manage?

Batteries and Pharmaceuticals are great examples.Looking at the flow of shipping containers, it's going to be a while until China will be able to get back into the bulk export business, even if they magically get their workers back to work.

A couple of my favorites from this years reading are - "It's Your Ship" by Micheal Abrashoff  and "Never Split the Difference" by Chris Voss. 

Occupancy will go done, investors will panic and jump ship and prices will fall!