Potential for passive income: Real estate investing can provide a steady stream of passive income through rental properties or other investments.

It's just main stream exaggerated click bait. 

Quote from @Joshua Ocean: Two things to consider: justice and reality.Justice would be taking them to court, garnishing their wages, and getting everything you are owed.Reality is spending money on court, not collecting a dime, and you walk away with less money and more frustration.You can't get blood from a turnip.

He is interested in the rental income stream.

My goal is to put some work in up front in order to end up with a passive income stream that runs itself with minimal babysitting on my part (bringing in enough money for me to hire people to deal with the inevitable headaches).  

It's much easier to do it right up front, than to change everything mid stream later on.We are Buildium users, and it has grown with us from one door to over 300 doors. 

If one of them had communicated with me a few times, that would be the first person I would talk to.For me its all about getting people on the phone and having a conversation ...Ive been doing this about 6 weeks now or so ... and Im just finding the tools on a shoe string budget that work for me ...I don't have a budget for mass texting and mailers or signs I scrounged some money for prop stream and a driving for dollars app...but yeah I found a skip tracing service that was affordable and paid for a skip on 58 vacant properties in my area ....

Interesting topic @Shiloh Lundahl I recently heard a podcast with the owner of a company called Income Store ( www.incomestore.com ) and they specialize in buying income producing websites and then fixing them up by adding income streams or boosting revenue and then you can hold onto it or even flip it.

I think it's important to evaluate some of the qualitative characteristics of the property to ensure its long term viability as an income stream (i.e. is it in a good school district, low crime, near a corporate campus, etc. etc.).

He is looking for 1) to spread out taxes 2) avoid realtor fees (things are selling easy and FAST in our town) 3) To have a 'low risk' (compared to stock etc...) income stream in retirement.