My preferred form of real estate investing would be multifamily long term rentals, and I have huge goals with my career.

Three words: OPM or Other People's Money. also, most people on here who have 100 units have either been doing real estate for a long time and have made successful choices throughout all of the ups and downs or have had previous successful careers.

I see my career in teaching though.

They are in it for careers and it is too risky for their E & O insurance.

My husband has a transient career so we have had great luck using personal properties low downpayment requirement to get our foot in tehdoor.

As we further our career we lived off of one salary and invest the other one.

In fact you would kiss that spec building career goodbye.

@Marcus Curtis is that the "field of dreams" for RE investing?

I realize that I won't have the required time and resources to build a team out of state at this point in my REI career, so I'm thinking of going the turnkey route for now.

With regard to law, I am a 2001 Harvard Law graduate and have spent most of my career in giant law firms in California, Minnesota, and Washington, DC.