The mortgage adviser wasn't very helpful and told me that I should just focus in generating the money for a down payment and then go from there.

Read my post on Cold Calling and see how I have been able to generate over $9,000,000 in listings just since January 2017 by "circle prospecting" as an ISA.  

I'd be taking advantage of your current living situation to generate as much income as possible, and save up enough cash to start investing on your own. 

This strategy will generate more business than a new agent can handle if performed consistently.

Parking lot revenue (rents) - (minus) operating expenses (opex) = Net operating income divided by cap rate for parking lots in market = value - (minus) cost to build parking lot (pave, fence, light) = profit generated 2.

@Carrie Maultsby-Lute Online lead generation, hands down.

I'm a full time Network Engineer, who also owns my own IT consulting service but I was drawn here while researching generating passive income.  

Treat any time spent on building leads, crafting marketing pieces or executing a direct mail or phone calls, as complete gold and NO ONE can distract you from those income-generating activities (IGAs).4.  

You missed the fact that the $52,500 in equity is saving/generating 4% of the returns.

Had you handled this differently, and been able to answer the questions I asked without all the BS, maybe I would have referred you some of the 100+ leads in my pipeline looking for Facebook advertising (that, I generate through PPC).