Take your time, be wise, and time will reward you.

It is financially rewarding, but you'll go on a ride to get there.I've bought a good number of properties in my investing career.

High risk, high reward.

Look for a broker or direct lender that offers strong training and has experience with investor loans.It's a challenging but incredibly rewarding career.

Others chose to enter the world of “syndication” or fund management, where their knowledge, experience and efforts are rewarded with “fee income”, often in the form of some kind of “promote”.

Consider a hybrid model: profit share + fixed contractor agreement.This protects your capital and still rewards his sweat equity.You can definitely make this work — just get everything in writing and set up real guardrails so you’re not the only one taking financial hits.

While these neighborhoods may carry perceived risks, they can offer excellent risk-reward opportunities.

@Robel Nessro if you're majoring in something like business management/finance/business, you'll certainly learn a lot of skills that you can transfer to numerous branches of REI...So, that type of college degree can give you multiple points of leverage (it can help you understand REI, while also helping you understand how to operate other businesses, while also qualifying you for W2 jobs--so, you can reap multiple rewards and have multiple options just from one college experience--that's great!)

So $50K on new HVAC won't be rewarded with higher rents as much as $50K on new kitchen, bathroom, flooring, windows, etc.

I am just now looking to begin my own portfolio, as I see the rewards my clients are receiving.