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[{"id": "i6cjysv", "text": "The real estate business is very large and the are many ways of making money in the business. Understand what motivates the buyers and sellers in your niche market. It sounds like you have a good entry into the business.\n\nSome people and some ways to make money are more passive than others. Understand that for most people, it's not a passive business. For home buyers, it's their dream. On the commercial side, money people are passive and they hire pros to manage the property, or they are pros and will actively add value to the property.\n\nThere are some good books out there.\n\nThere area number of professional groups where I live. Each has it's own niche. It might be useful to go to these, or at least look at their websites. It depends on the area, of course, because a large rural county is a very different market from a suburb on the edge of a huge metropolis, or very dense urbanity.\n\n\nI'm rarely part of stabilized properties, since I'm an architect-developer, and typically only involved when there are significant property improvements upcoming.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]