The upside to making this shift in my opinion is again the experience in marketing, engaging with customers(buyers/sellers), and surrounding myself with other like minded people.The downside is, at a starting position in a marketing department, I'd be lucky to earn half(or maybe even less than half) of my current income!

I recommend you read partnership/operating templates online to get familiar with them, then engage a business attorney and tax professional to help dial everything in.

You can flip properties, if you engage in this activity regularly, your profits will be subject to UBIT (Unrelated Business Income Tax), because flipping is considered engaging in an active business and that is taxable. 

Among these programs one truly stands apart from the rest; the Real Estate Investor Business Line of Credit which is specifically designed for real estate investors who engage in both fix & flip and fix & hold.

Better is 2 bed units as if people get engaged, married, have a room mate, have kids,etc. they need more space.

Hi Johnny,I have not engaged any of these folks myself but in my research these are the folks I identified as property managers in Gastonia.  

Since then I became really engaged in my work getting several promotions and have recently completed my Masters but the only thing that holds my interest lately is real estate.

The thing with apartment tenants is that they are very rarely engaged in their surroundings or community.

We guided her to community resources both before and after the eviction, but she chose to live in her car after the eviction instead of taking her family to a shelter and engaging in community services that were available to her.

Ensure you engage a 3rd party to do the due diligence and ask them for sample reports they have done in the past.