You should most definitely try to figure out if you truly want to own/manage units (NOT so passive), invest in a syndication, or like me, be a Private Lender to seasoned investors who buy & sell hundreds of homes a year?

I may not have much experience in the real state but what im certain of is that at 19 you can learn and stack up cash as much as possible for some time and even if 5 years pass you will still be able to find hundreds of deals if not thousands and you will have plenty of experience.Learn and Save is my advise.Keep that spark on and allways be possitive. 

I manage hundreds of rentals for 150 different owners.

Not a reputable company who performs large jobs and handles hundreds of thousands of dollars.

IIRC when NY was at 10-12K deaths overall they'd had 26 or so deaths of people under 60 who didn't have major pre existing health issues, and only a couple hundred period.

Say you buy a property and after your all in costs for purchase, rehab, etc, it cash flows a few hundred dollars per month. 

We've done a few different arrangements over a couple hundred flips, feel free to PM me and I can share the agreements.One agreement gave us an option to pay them 30% APR - OR - 30% of the profit.

I asked, are you going to gather info on my MIL and a hundreds of other people?.

Many of those banks have hundreds of millions (if not trillions) in assets.

If you do go straight into getting licensed, just keep in mind fees will amount to ~$2k/yr, give or take a few hundred bucks depending on your local area.