Well yes if you are successful.The reality is 87% of those who try to make a career at selling real estate fail out of the business within just a few years.

If you fully understand the process, the potential for profit can be considerable but if you do not, it can be bad - real bad.

I used to think all realtors were more or less the same as well :)Of course there's good and bad and shades in between.  

I am looking to progress my real estate investing career in a responsible and timely way, and it has been hard to save money for my next property while paying this much for my current property.

Quote from @John Williams: Has anyone been on the lender side of private money and had a bad experience that they are willing to share?

Hello BP,I've been working as a Gov contractor providing Cloud Engineer services for a while, but my true passion is commercial real estate. I would like to branch into commercial leasing with a government client nich...

I had a pretty successful career doing that and made good money but, it was not my passion, I love real estate and everything about it the good and the bad.

They either had below mkt. rents or high vacancies and bad reputations and with super managing them I significantly grew the cash flow. 

Agents, tell me why this is a bad idea.

I always thought that in need to invest where I lived and for may years invested in bad areas that I thought I needed to.