I eat my meals 1 bite at a time.

.** As a new agent - (write this now) your best client is YOURSELF - represent yourself - get out there and in the market - look at 20-50 buildings (houses, commercial, businesses with real estate, lots and land) - know more about your local market (and sub-markets) than anyone else in the area - you need to know the estimated value of properties in your marketing area - (if someone gives you a street name - you should be able, off the top of your head to know the value) be the most informed of zoning changes, tax sales, foreclosures, auctions, the county's master plan, study expired listings - talk to real investors (not those turkeys who just took a GET RICH REAL ESTATE COURSE.Buyers and Sellers are liars - they will waste your time, eat a hole in your wallet, run you around, make bad offers, call you at all times of the day and evening - they will be demanding - you don't need to baby sit with people who can't make a wise decision! 

You can do flips to give you cash for rentals.Good luckI definitely agree with this, nevertheless I feel rentals are somewhat slower in terms of building wealth due to the mortgage and other fees eating away into the positive monthly cash slow.

https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/news-rele...https://philly.curbed.com/philadelphia-market-repo...Philly has many interesting neighborhoods, great eats from cheap to expensive, culture, history, parks, etc.  

My initial thought thought on investment due to my current situation was just a condo unit or townhouse, but looking on MLS and the strata fees I find are just ridiculous sometime and I feel like these could eat up costs as well as defer any potential future buyers. 

Get your cash (tax free) and eat your cash-flow too.

I think a seller would eat your lunch if you were to tell them exactly how high you'd go.

If I pay my foreman $30/hr, I’m lucky to go out the door of an at-cost of $45/hr, I got to eat and keep the lights on too so per hour rates here won’t even come close to me.

And you said you had to eat December rent , so that wiped out , what ?

@Joe Villeneuve, Ok I came up with two different takes on your number; 1) Its how many bytes in a gigabyte2) It is also 2 raised to the 30th powerIn the meaning of #1 I relate it to the question "How do you eat an elephant?