At the same time, real estate has been overlooked by many traditional financial planners, who don't understand it or haven't been trained in it.

American workers are financial slaves and our education system, political system, media, financial regulatory system, tax system and financial system pretty much ensures that this will not be changing.George Carlin on the “American Dream”https://youtu.be/kJ4SSvVbhLw

The best answers for you will depend on your personal financial situation: how much you are looking to put in, how much risk you are willing to take with the money, etc..

Absentee (if your area isn't over-run with investors sending to these guys), Seniors, Financially Unstable...

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While simultaneously building our real estate portfolio so that my brother and I can be financially free and give our families the time they truly deserve. 

Besides my full time job as an Electrical Engineer I want to build a long time portfolio for financial freedom and satisfying my entrepreneurial soul.

I want to get into Real Estate to ultimately achieve financial freedom but am overwhelmed at the idea of where to start. 

However, I’m having trouble finding how to allocate my money to build a financial base while making a move towards buying my first investment property.I’m newly debt free with 10k in savings and able to save 50% of my income.

I have recently witnessed some people around me that I look up to have financial troubles in fields/jobs that should be “secure.”