As you can easily imagine these factors weigh heavily on the real estate market in Clayton County.

Do you simply take gifts of 10,000 so it wont be heavily taxed?

Thats exactly what i thought, you can't really find a median income with a job so heavily based on that one persons abilities and hard work.

But, in Maryland, if you were to get caught, the unlicensed guys who were doing the work with/for you could get heavily fined.

I see a lot of out of State investors make the mistake of relying to heavily on crime reports and overlook many great neighborhoods.  

Our choices seem to be:1) Refinance to a 30 year mortgage at a higher interest rate (which might not be so bad since we have been paying down the mortgage heavily).2) Purchase a duplex (townhouse) and house hack, allowing us to boost our savings by drastically cutting monthly expenses, then selling our current house.3) Do nothing with our current house/mortgage and use the cash we have saved to buy an inexpensive multi-family (will still need financing).

First and foremost one thing I know as a new real estate agent is this business is heavily predicated on building relationships which is something that takes time and can not be rushed.

Also, completely agree that Kiyosaki & McElroy lean a bit too heavily on the tactic of fear-driven sales.

I am heavily attracted to the idea of working independently as a sort of entrepreneur (I am not opposed to working hard or for many hours, it is more so the fact of choosing how I want to live my life and run my business).I am wondering if anyone has any tips or suggestions about how I should get started and go about doing Real Estate sales part-time in college?

There is bus service to the Howard train station but it is fairly new and not heavily used, whether covid or just not popular.