I have a career I travel for regularly.

100% agree with @Greg Dickerson, 10X your results and re-invest it into income-producing properties.

If on the other hand, you don't like your current job and want to use real estate as a way to decrease your regular job, then a) try finding another job you like, b) buy some properties to either flip or rent. 

While I do invest on a regular basis, I get investor loans (more costly) and have to put 25% down for small multis.Best of luck.

I always fall back to the literal meaning of the words and not the implied intent because what seems like a gray area to a regular person will be black-and-white to a lawyer. 

After a year of producing a little income from rentals but not enough to cover monthly expenses we sold.

I live in SF but commute regularly to Sacramento for work.

Without the exclusive, any agent you try to work with will most likely, consciously or unconsciously, put you on a back burner because they are servicing the clients who they are in contract with and have an obligation to produce for as stated above. 

A few of us are looking to get together on a regular basis to network and discuss RE inevesting.If you're in Jersey let me know and I'll let you know when.

A pro forma puts cash flow at about $200/month for the building, but, since we house hacked, we just absorbed that into our regular spending with some regular savings for repairs and maintenance, etc.Come around to 2020, we (with our tenants help) have paid down 10 years on our 30-year conventional loan, held by Chase.