My thought is this path will generate additional passive income streams that can be a springboard for launching my own business down the road.C) Start my own company now and continue to bight the bullet as Realtor until I get the business (e.g. property management, fix and flip, development) off the ground.My long term goals are to build a rental portfolio that provides $5,000/Month in passive income streams as well as build a sustainable development company focused on urban revitalization. 

If you have enough streams, eventually you will build a waterfall. 

This is another area of knowledge that adds to what you should know, which is a con, but good knowledge and relationships with those agencies, churches, etc. can easily turn to a plus of an endless renter stream, deposit assistance for your tenants (ie higher deposits for you), rental assistance if someone falls behind on rent, and support for issues tenants may have that otherwise would blow up and lead to a messy eviction. 

I do want to retire early enough to enjoy myself more, I have an okay work/life balance now but in say 5 years or so ideally I would like to quit my day job and have a few different sources of semi-passive income streams to enable me to spend more time doing what I like to do most (travel, spend more time with my wife and kids etc.).So in developing a plan, I was thinking today about my current goal of buying several SF and/or MF properties with reasonable CF over then next 5+ years to supplement my "early" retirement.  

You pick up the income stream but if it doesn't work out you get out of it.There is also CFD contract for deed.

Most seem to agree that one needs at least 5 steady streams of marketing to continuously produce leads.

There may be better ways for you to work with this income stream.

In investing replacing that which is about to exceed its expected lifetime is a necessary expense to keep that income stream comming in.

We are adding about 2000 square feet onto this house we are rehabbing and getting the foundation done has been a big problem...soft soil and a stream that runs right only 6 feet under the house.

I can't find good deals here and I don't trust my area, in my opinion quite overpriced. .P.S Either way I'm gonna move soon.http://qz.com/164317/the-scary-thing-about-puerto-ricos-population-its-leaving-the-island-for-good/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304173704579262390542968318http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-latest/2014/1/24/puerto-rico-the-nextdebtcrisis.html