You've already got your foot in the door by working in the industry, you'll reach your goals if you put the work into it.

Since then I have had Sales jobs in other industries and I had owned my own business for 9 years, and finally convinced my wife to support us and give me a chance to start investing!

Ultimate Goal in REI: For any that have played the Cash Flow game, it is simply to get out of the rat race.

Define what industry you actually freelance in, for better answers.Freelance = Self EmployedThe industry will help fill in some of the options you have, if any to prove your income.

Looking to learn the game through wholesaling while building capital and then eventually transitioning into more aggressive forms of investing with higher profit margins.

Account Closed   I got out of the game when I was competing with stay at home moms wheeling in their kids in strollers and hunting around in their pursues for 500k of cashiers checks   LOL.My last sale I attended there were 30 bidders for a little rancher opening bid was unusually low 80k   property worth 200k ARV  it bid up to 160ish and that's before rehab so that was probably a 10k deal for whoever bought it. 

After that set back, it's really rewarding to have been able to add another rental, and get back in the game instead of just talking about it.I'm sure I'm going to be learning lots this go around, especially with it being our first rehab.

I'm primarily a buy and hold investor/landlord but am working on my first flip.I'm still a novice to this Real Estate game but the time has come to ramp it up and get busy.

For some good commercial agent feedback, go talk to folks with CCIM and other designations who will be a better barometer of the industry than those who tried and failed.

I am looking at my first real "commercial" apartment building and like most things I'm starting off small... 6 unit building, I own a 4 plex, 3 duplexes and several SFH's, so I'm not totally new to the game, but all the previous properties I bought at deep deep discounts, all foreclosed, all cash deals, all in terrible awful shape, all are now rehabbed beautiful and cash flowing very well.So this leads me to this 6 plex, its in an area I already own duplexes, I finally this week contacted the owner, turns out he's ready to sell, hes owned the property since 1981 with his brother, his brother is 10 years older then he is and can't do any of the work anymore. so...