You’ve always been interested in real estate. You’ve never met an open house you didn’t want to tour, even if you weren’t planning to move. You’re always streaming one of those house-hunting or house-flipping shows, wondering what it would be like to get into real estate investing yourself. Then the reality hits: Becoming a landlord or flipping houses seems incredibly hard.
Still, even if this avenue of real estate investing feels a little too daunting to you, that doesn’t mean you can’t become a real estate investor. There are more ways to get started than you’ll find on HGTV, and some are easier than others. GOBankingRates chatted with some experts to get a sense of how to rank these approaches to real estate investing, from easiest to hardest.
