The market for MTR is way bigger than traveling nurses. 

Most veteran investors I know who are now very wealthy had regular jobs (professors, engineers, nurses, mechanics, HVAC techs, realtors, etc) to pay the bills and to build capital.

Great home for medical students, nurses, or doctors that is walking distance to campus. 

I work full time as a registered nurse.

Worked 2-3 jobs as pharmacist and nurse for over 15 yrs to pay off our buildings in 15 years and rehab almost everything.

I was an ER nurse for years and I don’t care how many sweet stories you hear about pits.

@Russ Draper  in Oregon you can become your own principal broker ( sole practitioner) after 2 years as a broker ( agent)  all agents in Oregon are called Brokers.... 

This is particularly popular with sole practitioner lawyers who are in court a lot but need a space to meet with clients.

Much less time and money invested, much less effort put out and a much smaller payday because of it.People that are good bird dogs are people like mail carriers since they know who is not picking up their mail and might have an abandoned property, bus drivers especially school bus drivers that will go through residential neighborhoods and can see distressed properties all day, people that work in nursing homes (pre-probate list...), firefighters to see places with lots of superficial fire damage, the super chatty soccer mom that is in everyones business and can tell you anything about anyone in their neighborhood, etc.

@Keith A.I’m a registered nurse and I work ‘per Diem.’