Consider being an agent while investing, a dual approach to your real estate dreams.

Is this a do-able starting place financially, or a pipe dream? 

Thinking of kicking things off with house hacking and maybe trying to work as a property manager or something similar to stay close to the industry.My wife and I went through a wonderful exercise–thanks to @Bruce Woodruff for the invaluable guidance–to define what's important to us, our values, goals and dreams.

Buyers today are still looking for good investments (obviously), but the most achievable scenario is short-term renting a property to help subsidize (or fully cover) expenses while living out a lifelong dream to own property in Provincetown.

. : DROWN THEM IN FUTURES  "  this to me is like that take folks that have rally no experience in something that takes a ton of experience to get good at @Joel Owens give them a cheap buy in .. lead the carrot with the 500k which is more money than most of these folks have ever made or dreamed of and yes they jump in... to me just same ole same ole guru stuff.. and the Guru makes most fo the money on the 10k and monthly other wise why charge either of those if they are making 250k per student.. that would be the big money.. why because they don't do a ton of it ( maybe ) I just don't see this in todays market as being real.. or achievable for folks that don't have like Joel says significant liquidity to buy commercial and experience... you want expe3rince in commercial get a license go work for a commercial broker get paid to do your apprentice work and like many of us 10 years  into the career you start making some significant coin.if it was as easy as pay 10k and 197 a month.. there would be NO commercial property to buy you guys would own it all.And again if this is all about nothing down owner finance that ship sailed over the horizon many moons ago.my 2 cents.

They had a very specific vision for a dream beach house.

I am one step closer to achieving my dreams and having a great time on the journey there.

I appreciate all of the different perspectives and believe that opportunity lies somewhere between data and dreams.

My dream is to purchase land and have the ability to put a Airbnb on the property, maybe a sauna cold plunge make it a relaxation get away.

Passive income here I come