If you have a self-directed retirement account - you have virtually unlimited investment options.

This could be a virtual assistant or someone locally. 

@Emma Hustis, I suspect most brokerages will not allow their agents to wholesale because there is too much risk of being sued with virtually no upside.

I then started my own virtual family office focused on helping real estate investors.  

I manage a co-investing club where we all get together virtually and vet deals together, choose them and then invest.

I've found this to be true across virtually all finance and accounting platforms serving rental investors.

Virtually all large cap ex items have a life time beyond 8 years.   

It sucks but thats how EM deposits work in virtually all markets.. now one thing I personally do as a buyer is I will send in money but NOT EM I will send in money as part of the purchase price and Zero Em that way I can recall the money at any time since its not EM.. 

The most recent job fair featured over 20,000 open positions.In ConclusionWhile nothing is guaranteed, the combination of population growth and limited land for expansion virtually assures that prices and rents will continue to increase.Thanks for reading my post.

My knowledge in that area is virtually non-existent.