That stuff only benefits you so you can pay it yourself!"

While I got the landlording stuff down to a science (or at least most of the time).

I've been spending pretty much all of my free time listening to the podcasts and reading the forums...so much information on the site.If you ever need anything let me know, we can learn some stuff together.

There's so much that goes in to figuring this stuff out, the more information you provide, the easier to give you an accurate answer. 

If you have a lot of stuff it can make things harder if your stuff is in the way. 

You don't have to schedule with your Realtor to get you in, you just call and go when you want to.If you are buying stuff off the MLS, yes, you will have to give a portion of your percentage to your broker, but if you don't have your license, you weren't getting anything from it to begin with.... 1.5% is better than 0%. 

I don't own any multis but for each property I own I spend about 8 hours a year on each (assuming you're talking about handling the oddball type stuff)

Here some stuff that stood out to me: REI can be self-employment or and investment as well... so although I would actually love to be self-employed in real-estate, I can see that for my current situation, the best approach may actually be the true "investment" side - partners, teams, etc. where I'm not as hands on.Again, thanks all for the perspective and encouragement!

Queens has a very dense population and there are a lot of people that own apartments for around $100,000, where as the house prices are closer to half a million and way over.

Like @Justin Williams said, there's still stuff in California!