You need a job that’s going to help you have the required debt to income ratio. For example if you buy a multi family property with 4 units. Let’s say each unit brings in 2000 a month and total it’s 8000 a month. 75% of that total rent counts towards your income. Now let say you have a job that’s pays 4K a month. That means you have 10,000 income per month. Let’s say you’re looking to qualify to buy a multi family property that cost 600k. With a 7% mortgage rate, and 30k down, your monthly payment would be 4400 including everything except maintenance cost for things that might break or other such items. Usually the bank will let someone with a strong credit score above 750+ to borrow up to an amount that would not exceed 50% debt to income ratio. So your income is 10,000. Your debt monthly payment is 4400. Your debt to income is 4400/10000. You would qualify for that loan to buy that multi family property. Now your cash flow is maximum of 8000-4400, which is 3600/month. That’s 43,200 a year of cash flow(maintenance cost whatever may come up). 43,200/600,000 is 7.2% cap rate which is pretty good return on your investment. Also your money into the property is 30k +closing costs of about 10k. So 43,200/40,000 is a return on equity of about well over 100%. That’s such a great return on investment. Now I used numbers to tell a good story that’s easy to understand. I hope it helps.