If the majority of you income is from some venture, then you can be seen as being in the business.

I have been trying to get my foot in the door in real estate investing for some time now but as everyone knows, a busy work schedule and family life leaves little time for pursuing new ventures.

There is so much bad advice out there and on this site; it is hard to pick just a few...You need an entity before you start buying real estate.Entities protect you from personal liability.You don't need a lawyer (or CPA), you can use off the shelf forms from Staples or such and such guru for that.Stay out of the stock market.Stay out of real estate.Stay out of lending.Stay out of angel investing and venture capital.Quit your day job and focus on making your investing your job.Keep your day job and forget about that investing nonsense.Follow Kiyosaki's investing and financial model.

If you want to do a cash out and pull out the max, you are gonna have origination fees, minimum of 1% of loan amount I would venture, appraisal, title work, reporting and recording charges and various other fees and possibily points.

I am not venturing to acquiring my first flipping property.

A joint venture sounds like a good idea to me.

But I would venture to say that neither (as they pertain to individual investors) take up a lot of space in the over-all investment sales numbers.

I need to venture to the west coast sometime.

Best wishes to your RE business ventures.

There are some duplexes in Dublin, so you wouldn't have to venture far from the part of town you're starting to call home.If you ever have any questions or want to chat, feel free to reach out.