I have no idea as to what your current ability, research level or grit potential  looks like, but when I made the leap you would have had to have put more than an army in front of me to stop me.  100% focus.

Although in this case it is a relative, let's not focus there because it will be a business relationship.

That means I want to focuse the next 5 to 8 years acquiring real estate. 

I love working on houses, meeting new people, and am currently involved in the medical field, with the goal of focusing in family medicine while doing real estate finance / investing simultaneously (can be a heavy load, but I'm learning to be tenacious).

The problem is that I currently enjoy my full-time career, which is not real estate related, and would rather focus most of my time and effort here.

Over the years, I’ve posted several tax questions on BP and there was an REI-focused CPA that was always very responsive and helpful in answering them.

Any appreciation would just be an added bonus but I think stability is my main focus.

The initial goals of the workshops would be to present information to open them into the concepts of using retirement money for investing, and to provide them with the sites of the companies that are admins/custodians of these type accounts, so they can do additional research, and to also point them to the SEC info.In holding these workshops, I'm looking at establishing “Pre-Existing” and “Substantive” Relationships; realizing that this is a long-term strategy.With the idea of it being passive for the investors, my thought is for them to invest in my LLC, and then the LLC buys assets, which I'm thinking to focus on commercial; possibly businesses with strong cash-flow that are also selling real estate as part of the transaction.I'm also thinking, in the workshops, to possibly include those with equity in their properties.

In contrast, brokers who focus on commercial apartment buildings market these deals to buyers who they have relationships with.

Visitors from all over the world come for the Waste Management Phx Open (actually in Scottsdale), Barrett Jackson auto show, MLB Spring Training (Giants, Dbacks, and Rockies all play out of Scottsdale), and many other events/attractions.