Gonna separate the words acre trader in case someone is searching for it here.

@Carlos Medina with forex a highly skilled trader can definitely match from 60K.

. :)As mentioned, I'm far more stock market trader than a real estate investor.

Yes, you need to learn some technical basics, but I know many successful people whose strongest skills are either applying logical reasoning to system design or translating between super tech types and more outgoing trader types.

Thanks for the clarification, I'm a stock trader so I versed in a lot of different investment vehicles but to hard assets like real estate I'm a newcomer.

One is working doubles at Trader Joe's $22/hr & still doing courses on-line.

Hence how day traders make $. 

My career as a professional trader means I will only have free time outside the hours of 8:00-4:30 so the idea is that while I would get things rolling, the real estate would be left to my fiancee once she obtains her license here in New York City.

so all this regular income talk and capital gains talk all hinges upon the fact if the IRS considers him a "trader," for the purposes of taxation right?

I have found it to be a very nice compliment to my other real estate (SFR, STR and non-trader REITs) I invest in ND and MT.