Whether you have $100 or $100,000, investing in real estate can be a powerful wealth-building tool.

I got my start with real estate investing in 2016 with the purchase of a run-down 1970s split level with four bedrooms. My W-2 income was less than $23,000 at the time. I lived with a rotating cast of three other short and long-term renters for years while slowly renovating it. Deals like that are much harder to find today, but that doesn’t mean you’re shut out of the market entirely if you’re in the same income bracket I was.

Here are five proven ways to invest in real estate, ranging from hands-off approaches that take minutes and minimal funds to set up, to more involved strategies that could…