Others may need to be creative, you just need to make sure you hit a simple savings rate and invest competently. i appreciate the advice. my plan is to be saving about 75k/year while I'm paying off student loans and then jump up to about 125-135k/yr once loans are paid off. since my most immediate term goal is to reach partial FI (have the FI to work part time) I see REI as a means via cash flow.the other complicating factor is I think the financial prospects for my field are quite bearish and anticipate a decline in salary in the long term due to: -decreased reimbursement from medicare, increase in PAs/NPs, and and significant increase in residency training programs which will create a surplus of Emergency Physicians -- all of this leads me to believe that if I want to maintain a high savings rate in the future I may have to work even more to get the same income I'm currently getting.

I have been educating my self by reading and listening, however I feel as if I’m at a point where I need to get more “field work”.

I'm in the accounting/consulting field and have finally saved up some money to try to jump into the Boston market. 

I'm an field engineer in the Schaumburg area near Chicago.

What is some advice you would give someone just learning this field?

You do need a paid account for Docusign but there are free alternatives, like making a PDF with form fields ( https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/how-to/convert-word-excel-paper-pdf-forms.html ), or using a service like Cozy.co which has simplistic applications for free.

@Remington LymanIn my opinion, the fastest way to qualify for a loan on your own is by getting a W2 job (full time) that is in the same or similar field as your JP job.

This allows a defined stamp (image/text whatever) to be applied to the pdf and has dynamic fields that take input that become part of the stamp.After that you have to "flatten" the pdf otherwise the stamp can be easily deleted by anyone who opens the pdf. 

I'm brand new into the field of real estate.

Go to college and study a technical field that will lead to a high paying job.