🌞6️⃣ Rental Income Deductions: Earn income & deduct related expenses.7️⃣ Home Equity Loan Interest: Deduct interest if used to improve your home.8️⃣ Military Moving Expenses: Active-duty?

Hopefully your agent can help you out - this is where they earn their money.

Quote from @Jared Appel: Hello BP,My name is Jared Appel, recently relocated to Chicago by way of Miami, and diving head first into the BP community to start my real estate career.

The market appreciates 3% per year.If you pay cash for one house and rent it for $1,500, after five years, you'll have earned $90,000 in rent income and gained $34,000 in appreciation. 

I could sell the property and net $170k and then reinvest that and earn 9% interest annually via lending hard money. 

Whether I find a new tenant or not, the departing tenant moves out after 30 days and is treated like an ordinary termination, which means I process their deposit like normal and they can earn a good landlord reference.2.

Having the cash means you can balance a higher amount down to make sure you earn the cash flow you want monthly, but also leave some around for more. 

I think it all depends where you are starting in your career.

Investors buy shares and earn returns through dividends and potential stock price appreciation.You typically can’t lose more than your initial investment with publicly traded REITs.

So, the real estate broker/agent would have to inform the seller of the fair market value of their home, making it much more difficult to earn a profit larger than what a real estate commission would be.