Thanks for the clarification, I'm a stock trader so I versed in a lot of different investment vehicles but to hard assets like real estate I'm a newcomer.

One is working doubles at Trader Joe's $22/hr & still doing courses on-line.

Hence how day traders make $. 

My career as a professional trader means I will only have free time outside the hours of 8:00-4:30 so the idea is that while I would get things rolling, the real estate would be left to my fiancee once she obtains her license here in New York City.

I have real estate, both a traditional and roth, an annuity, an IUL MEC, I also dabble in Forex, and options. 

so all this regular income talk and capital gains talk all hinges upon the fact if the IRS considers him a "trader," for the purposes of taxation right?

And when you meet those people and know what you are looking for (ex: syndications), it's easier to find the right people..."

I have found it to be a very nice compliment to my other real estate (SFR, STR and non-trader REITs) I invest in ND and MT.

Anton Kreil was a Goldman Sachs professional trader and then he went out on his own and opened the Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management.

They are not secret, see the 2nd page of this link on Fannie Mae’s site:https://singlefamily.fanniemae...Loan to value ratio just refers to the % of the property value that’s leveraged, for ex, if you put 20% down on a property, your LTV is 80%.