You can pay less tax on your w2 via having the spouse that goes full time real estate qualify as real estate professional, and then continue to grow by buying more and more properties.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Good job at 25 already thinking about your wealth building journey!  

Accountants are in such demand, that the best are not even accepting clients half the time.The other problem I see often with accountants on here is that they specialize in larger investors, and have really high prices when you as a smaller investor do not need all the bells and whistles.Another thing I see is folks thinking they need to have a tax professional in their state.

Here are some resources I found really helpful on my journey.1.

You're in the right place to continue the journey.

And you likely haven't faced life on a downturn, it all comes down at once and it's kind of correlated professionally and personally. 

This is called house-hacking and it's how many choose to start their investment journey :) 

Every wall you open is a new journey in life...

Quote from @Jerryll Noorden:MAYYYYBE  interconnect 400 super comuters together and feed it every single piece of data on this planet and construct a real life emulator/simulater with every person's artifical character on that simulation where every user has inputter their life's journey...