But, nearing retirement and then, will be looking more at the type of vehicle  you supply. 

On another forum I was surprised by far the best received was a post I did on Selfstorage and retirement life.

But, to retire off of real estate, one either needs a lot of time to pass, or needs a large base of capital.

I had a super traditional W2 job and, BECAUSE OF BIGGERPOCKETS, made the transition from W2 -> into a non-traditional start-up prop-tech company (fired twice in one month)-> Then, I started our own tech-focused general contracting business serving new to intermediate real estate investors.I've more or less retired as a real estate investor (I still have about 50+ doors, but nearly every one of my deals went sideways for one reason or another), and NOW my ONE THING is working as a GC. 

@Jacky Peng I'm trying to convince my retired parents to do a garage ADU conversion out near SFO airport where they live so please keep us updated here on the forums, I look forward to hearing how this all goes for you and what other questions you have along the way!

part of the problem though is that a lot of new investors are coming in now armed with content from >5 years ago and ready to 'retire' off the cash flow from 4 C- rentals. 

I still may have a pension some day if I'm lucky, but it's not going to look like the heydays of pension plans when you could retire with 100+% of your pay.

Is your job remote or do you think that just having one rental property will be enough to retire and live the retired life?

Pickle ( real name) retired and her replacement would not do this for us.. :(  in this scenario this is when CASH is TRULY KING. 

That is what our team at Rent To Retirement has been helping investors do for a decade now BP.