I am hoping to accrue at least 10 single family or multi-unit rental properties by the time I retire in 2025 and am mainly here to get educated and grow my business.

Hi Eugene,I'm retired Air Force myself who wishes I got into the real estate game while I was in.

I do plan to retire from my current profession but want to create a real estate business and run it as well.

That is where I plan on doing more investing because when I “retire” or do real estate full time that is where I’ll be.

The warm belt states experiencing high growth from baby boomers retiring and migrating out of the cold belt states have plenty of retail tenants small and large with expansion plans ready to go in those spaces.Typical time in most warm belt states to re-tenant and get rent coming in to dark STNL could be anywhere from 3 months to 1 year depending on box size, location, mom and pop versus regional and national tenants who tend to move slower and be more methodical.We are not moving to a society where people sit at the computer all week long and stay in a house and drop ship 50 packages by drones.

Aside from 3-4 meetings per year with my financial adviser it will be truly passive for retirement.You can not retire as long as you are operating any form of business, esspically real estate investing.

We both work full time well paying jobs and have gotten into REI as a retirement(early) plan.  

We hope to gain passive income to fund a comfortable retirement, by getting started now, in our early thirties.

I'm also trying to find good vendors since our beloved contractor just retired on me.

I have good income from The seven units I have but will fall short of my goal but I still can buy after I retire next year.