I am a 32 year old who is satisfied with my career but am looking for a way to park my extra income aside so that I can one day have a stable stream of passive income that will allow me to retire early or at least let me take some time off work and travel with my family or spend time doing the things I love doing (my hobbies unfortunately don't pay the bills!). 

Long-term goal have a multiple streams of positive cash flow for my retirement, so I can enjoy traveling with my wife in our golden years.

@Ned Carey  now if your talking Auction .com  or hubzu or something like that you have an escrow period.but they do want to know if your going to be financing or paying cash and they won't let you change mid stream.. by change I mean you can't say your going to pay cash and then your really getting a loan.. most will kick it out and cancel the deal.. if you say cash you have to have cash..

Multis tend to be more robust income streams for that reason. 

Being out around the town, digging through the GIS and MLS, I continuously have a stream of ideas for projects that could be built and be profitable in this market.  

Now the other thing I would say is to really look at your monthly expenses, income streams and your total debt overall.

If I can get the right loan done I would do whatever I can to start another income stream.  

I am an engineering team manager for a popular internet music streaming company (take a guess!)

One way to earn an income stream is to refer deals out to other licensed agents.  

I am a photographer by trade, but am looking at real estate as away of creating a stable stream of income and achieving a little more financial independence.