MY broker does both, but he's retired and it's more like a hobby to him.  

Currently I am trying to find a win-win situation by locating an owner of a walk-up who is ready to retire or move on for some reason, but would still want monthly income from the property.I have turned to bigger pockets to learn and give back.  

My goal is to replace my income as soon as possible as well as invest for retirement.  

You're likely to find investors who have a fully scaled property investment company, financial advisers looking to make connections for their clients who want leverage their retirement accounts, and real estate agents who have built an investor clientele database over their career. 

Pretty darn excited to learn as much as possible.I'm finding that the more I learn, the more that I don't know and can now be excited to find out about.My wife and I had just started having a discussion about wanting to start building a real estate portfolio for retirement a couple weeks ago when I just did a search on podcasts and this one came up and I haven't stopped listening since.

My biggest incentive to building a RE Portfolio is so that I can augment my current income and hopefully build stability for my parents as they are now steadily but surely looking over the edge to retirement, as well as other family and friends (and of course, help myself in the future as well!). 

Our goal is to be able to retire at 42 and 44 when my husband has the opportunity to retire from the navy.Another great place is to look around the blogs, forums and listen to the podcasts.

My husband is retired and will be able to devote more time to this venture right away but I will be limited somewhat; however, I can do a lot of leg work via internet and mai-outs.

I'm currently going on my 8th year in  the Air Force Reserve and I have another 8 years to go till I'm retired from that military life.

I have been working in banking since 2010 as a retirement specialist and a mortgage, personal, business and home equity loan originator.