My name is Fitzjai Wright , I am new to the world Real Estate as well as stocks.

I am a stock and precious metal investor looking for a new market.

After maximizing my retirement accounts where I am confident in my passive stock market index investing, which I am happy to share my knowledge about, I am looking to real estate to build additional wealth and passive cash-flow.Thank you to everyone who reads my introduction.

I think it's kind of opposite to the Stock Market or economy in general.

But how does one deny the stock market craziness and the resulting bond market declines since the election?

Many others online can explain it better, so I'll post some helpful links:http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/09/how...http://fortune.com/2016/12/14/federal-reserve-inte...Yes you are right, you either have to put more down, OR find a better deal.  

My goal starting off was to slowly build up a stock of buy and hold properties.

The plan is to have her out for only a month, only do whats necessary and use inexpensive materials like vinyl flooring, stock cabinets which there is only about 10 linear feet of so less than $1000.  

What concerns me about your post is the Don't really have too much time...RE investing is not passive like the stock market.  

It reminds me of a hot stock I bought once that had great potential but kept dropping and dropping and dropping so I doubled down every time because it HAD to eventually go up, right?