You can make RE easier down the road by staying in college IMO, depends on your major.

You need to gain some on-site experience to really make what is in the BP books make real-life sense.

My college is growing at a ridiculous rate which has created a shortage in student housing and consequently has make rents go up.

I am flipping a home with an indoor pool.

Do you not care if a city where you have rentals is going to make rent controls?

@William Shaffer If a house is Vacant AND DISTRESSED there is a significant increase in motivation you just have to make sure you get some type of correspondence to the person in charge of making a decision on that house.If you have an LLC set up you can register with high level skip tracing services like TLO, Microbilt, or Accurint, and track the owners or decision holders down.Barring special circumstances, having 500 LEGITIMATE Vacant and Distressed properties per month, with the correct decision makers contact info, I believe you should be able to get a deal...following the 4-6 multi touch rule.

The LLC makes it much more difficult to find out who and how to find the decision maker.

At this point, I know that it has been rehabbed to the extent of indoor/ outdoor paint and refinished hardwood floors (not much, I know).

Then I really settled in and started picking up some solid money makers - especially the last 2 or 3 years.Things are a little tougher now but I've been putting money into the deals lately to keep my cash flow numbers up and make the LTV's work to that magic 65 to 70%.6+ years later and I have 19 rental properties.

As a business owner trying to make real estate investing as passive as possible (though I know it cant be 100% passive) - I dont see myself getting my real estate license.