Quote from @Will Bungert: I'm a 24 yr old early in my career in corporate finance working for a CRE brokerage firm and I'm interested in getting a real estate license to 1) learn more about residential real estate markets before I begin my investing journey and 2) potentially earn supplemental income as an agent.

Live off your W2 (until rental properties supplement that income) and get side hustles.

@Jon ReedWell said, and I agree with most of your reply on the thread - except the part about moving your holdings into bonds.Selling off a portfolio is tricky, cap gain rates are brutal, and if you are a 60 year old investor with good cash flowing rentals that supplement a retirement, why not just keep them and work to develop a tax minimization strategy, and who knows maybe you will live to be 90!

I basically had a standard cut and paste response but next time I think I'll put in there that I will ignore the generic response.