And without having equity in our home right now, and having not a lot of cash to devote to an investment property, there’s really no way we could get into something like that.

I'm trying to figure out if it would make sense to find a more steady job to produce some income and to do real estate on the side, or if I should devote all of my time to investing.

Things happen that are really not under the control of any manager or investor, stuff happens and that devotion in a project or to a property can easily change over time.If I am a small investor who owns one SFD in Tampa under management I had better realize that while I have some control over that manager I probably won't be his most important client and I really need to accept that fact.

On the plus side I have plenty of time to devote to managing the actual property.

As someone who has mentored other investors, I have no problem devoting my time/energy/work, and I also have no problem risking creating a new competitor (I've only had one person turn on me like that), but I'm certainly not going to be willing to pay someone for the privilege of having to do that work and take that risk.

Too many fly by nighters and agents who do it on the side that don't have the time to devote to managing it correctly.

I say this because I am not quite ready, or able to devote the time needed to be active in flipping, as I hope to do much of the work myself.

The good news is I have alot more time to devote to real estate investing, the bad news is I have 1/2 the money as when I was married.

I do not know what your MOS is, so I don't know how much time you have to devote per week to your knowledge, but start with reading books, a lot of them.

I wanted a concrete date that works with my schedule so that I can devote full attention and still give me some time to plan.As it looks now, I will be looking for single family distressed properties somewhere between 100k and 200k - hopefully 3 bed, 2 bath.