>>1528393Buy a house with a rental unit and rent it out to pay for your house. Build or lockoff a rental unit on your property and rent it out. Buy a second home or a third or a 20th and rent them out. Buy an apartment building.
Go into trades with low bars to entry and become self-employed. Once you're reliably getting more work than one person can do you hire others and keep getting more work. Keep hiring, keep getting more work. Try not to sell to the public, they suck. If you can get into trades for businesses and commercial properties you can quickly get rich. Work for governments, they pay like you wouldn't believe.
invest your profits and pay down debt. I'm not going to tell you how to invest because I suck at that, but if you own a business putting money into that will often pay returns like you'll never see on the stock market. As long as you're good at running a business that is.
buy a business. A lot of established small contractors would be willing to sell out for one year's profits. So you work for free for a year and then you own a business. It won't be worth much but you can grow it, and you just spend a year learning to run it.
Honestly there's business opportunities all around all the time. People just approach it from the wrong mindset. Don't look for ways to sell THINGS to the PUBLIC. That sucks. Look for ways to sell SERVICES to BUSINESSES and GOVERNMENTS. That's where all the money's at. A business doesn't care as much what you charge them, we just write it off anyways. Governments have to take the low bid but the low bid is still high enough you wouldn't believe it. Mostly because it's a pain to work with governments.
There's lots of other ways to make money, but renting property or starting a business in trades for other businesses are the two easiest to understand. Relatively low bars to entry.