So once again I see myself dreaming about something (real estate) and this time I have found a community of dreamers fighting to make those dreams come true.

Houston RE professional community,I just moved from Dallas to Houston.

These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

I've loved real estate since we first started looking at buying our first place but for the past year or so I've been wanting to take a more serious and professional approach to it.

I have a wide professional network of high income earners who do not do anything with their money and I have already started the vetting process of talking to some of them... mostly randomly at kids' birthday parties. 

Same is true with real estate. 

But it shows how important it is to run a professional business from day one: have a buisness name, a business address (I have a UPS PO box with a real street address) and handle yourself like a company would.

True I should dig into the STR operating expenses.

To find one (aside from word of mouth), search for your state/areas society for professional engineers.

Then you can collect passive interest on the way down and sell for a capital gain when interest rates bottom out again.If the market is head down for let's say five years, I would avoid dividend income from stocks, because the capital loss will probably put you in the red, unless you can hold til the top of the next cycle.If you find true passive income with low risk and little capital (assuming you have student loans like myself), please LET ME KNOW :)