Once you do so you will know what your looking at and how to sell it to other investors.Use @Michael Blank deal analyzer to do this, its not only the best spreadsheet to run numbers but it comes with 10 short videos and case studies of how to do it. 

I know a lot of people that work jobs that they love, because they love it, and the money is decent but not the overriding facet of their existence - in fact, most anyone who's been successful at anything will tell you point blank that the money was nice but was not the primary motivation at why they kept at it, or pursued it further.

I've done that on several occasions. 

This is where you differ.If I were you I would buckle down in school and finish the AS in less than two years and find another job to fill in the blanks (yes, maybe two jobs and school).

On the rare occasion I do tell someone I usually get the “cringe face.”

Good Luck "Most of the time when we try to explainwhat we do, we get a lot of blank stares and glossed-over looks.

Depending what your goals are you can try the Aberdeen area, the yelm/rainier area, and you can on occasion get a duplex in the olympia/lacey/tumwater area for $269k. 

Matt, one reason i enjoyed stansberry interview with lacy hunt is when asked point blank will there be a "debt jubilee", which is what stansberry has been selling hard for some time, he got completely shut down by hunt.Really worth checking out, brilliant guy, but haaard to listen to him talk in highly technical terms with his slow monotone voice.

On occasion we have sweat equity opportunity but that is more irregular. 

That from a numbers only point of view isn't a bad gig and something most people would think twice walking away from to start w/ a blank slate.She now has "unlimited" income potential, but has to earn each one of those dollars.