The amount of money you can make as a real estate investor depends on what niche of real estate investing you pursue. Wholesalers could make several thousand dollars or more, for every successful transaction they close. Fix-and-flip investors could make tens of thousands of dollars on profitable deals. Rental property investors typically seek to meet the 1% rule, in which a property's monthly rents are equal to at least 1% of your total investment in that property. Whether or not you want to handle your own property management can impact your profits as well.