Last year I was in your shoes, listening to podcast after podcast, reading books, devouring articles, how-to's, and talking to realtors.The story going around in my head was--is this industry, career, and life just for the ultra-outgoing, super-confident movers and shakers?

I think if you can only do one at a time market does not matter unless your doing ultra luxury I don't see how that works for a full time gig unless you can live on 50 to 70k a year which is a decent profit per project in PDX these days and sometimes a great profit.. you can be a realtor and have no risk and do much better.. 

My stuff is ultra local

Don’t fall for the “I’m ultra successful” act.

Don’t fall for the “I’m ultra successful” act.

Don’t fall for the “I’m ultra successful” act.

The ultra high returns always come with ultra high risk - nobody knew then whether the economy would recover, or keep on sliding (like it did for the first several years of the depression). 

We're still in an ultra-strong seller's market.2.

Don’t fall for the “I’m ultra successful” act.

Multifamily syndication will require a good amount of initial due diligence on the sponsor, but very minimal time/effort once you've made your decision.50k / year will require 5 Million in equity earning 10% (if we're being ultra-conservative here).