Hi everyone,So I've been a Realtor for the past year and a half with fluctuating income.

My story begins in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti where I was born and raised for the first half my childhood.

If they are making a half a million a year did you get proof of that? 

For a season people in our career field made tens of thousands in re-enlistment bonuses, with half in a lump sum and the other half spread over the enlistment period. 

In the US Wall St. bankers are doing great but a poll last year showed that half of Main St.

I'm covering half of my expenses already with my real estate salary so I'll probably be "escaping the rat race" sooner or later

So where's the other half haha, what are the successful parts of this past year?

Kitchen appliances, water heater and furnace at half life.  

I guess you mean that most properties there don't cost more to service (mortgage, insurance, vacancy allowance, cap ex, maintenance, management, tax) than half of the gross rent.

Trip is expensable, but the TIME...It is still at least close enough for a weekend trip once a year to check things out, but if I had to turn a place, etc. it would get really ugly real fast, and property management is not really reasonable in price, taking 10% off the top of gross income, which ends up being more like half of my net profit for merely being available in case something happens.