My goal is to be be able to retire early, bringing in around 50-60k/year passively.

I did have surgery on my shoulder recently and I'm off of work for 4 months, I have been doing lots of reading about real estate investing and actually found classes coming up to become an agent.My goal in being an agent is to gain more knowledge with the processes of buying/selling houses.

But anything under 2 years you run into tax issues with capital gains so you need to look out for that.Now I am slightly confused by what you mean by 'claim it as a rental property'.

Will be very very hard to do 100k a year net on rentals- even assuming you are into MF as a passive investor.

You can secure conventional financing, save money, and gain experience being a landlord.

@Dave Saveri I hope my blog post is helpful to you as I cover some basics in setting up a syndicate.Here is a link for you: Apartment Syndications And How To Tap Into Huge Passive Income Profits

My goal is to create passive income with Multi-Family/Apartment building rentals.

My goal is to create passive income with Multi-Family/Apartment building rentals using my VA loan in the process.

I am an agent I work specifically with investors in selling off market properties and my firm is about to open our third office in GA in the south Atlanta area.

I can take a max of 10% of my paycheck but I'll have to pay taxes on the capital gains if I sell those right?