I am 100% completely passionate about everything Real Estate.

Is it really a passion of yours? 

I'm very passionate about getting involved with him but I only know the basics to the buy and flip process and I want to have more knowledge about it before I jump in.

I have a coworker who has been advising me on a lot of things concerning real estate investing (he is very passionate about it and very good at it.)

Sailing is a big passion of mine.

I still have that passion when I talk to someone about real estate.

I am someone who doesn’t quite yet qualify for conventional loans due to my inconsistency of work (always jumping different jobs, went from owning a moving service-carpentry/construction company-real estate agent, always have had passion for RE.

(Roughly the ballpark I'm looking at)I have options, I have a LOC and I could potentially get a HELOC/HEL.I could get P2P lending for the downpayment and then take that money to a conventional lender.My house is in my name, but my wife could get a FHA loan and shoot for a Du/Tri/4-plex (This would go above the 50k soft limit of course but I am concerned about the down payment rather than getting the loan itself.)I could get a hard money loan for a few points, use credit to fix and flip, or get the hard money loan and hope to find a conventional lender after the place is fixed up with tenant in place.Along the FHA route I could do a 203k to fix a place up (Especially the before mentioned 4-plex)I could try to find someone who is willing to do seller/owner financing and cut the bank out entirely if possible.On the other hand, I could do a few wholesales to build up some capital...The problem is, I get nervous and can't talk confidently even about things I am deeply passionate about.

Within the last couple of weeks, I have had quite a few people tell me that they absolutely hate their 9-5 day jobs and want to quit to then focus on their passion or rather growing passion in real estate.

I wish I worked in residential architecture as that is my passion, but it has been my experience that residential architecture positions are hard to come by.