In the last several years, the internet has been inundated with articles and videos about passive income. Many promising wealth through scammy and sketchy means.

Unlike those, we’re going to cover one of the simplest forms of building passive income there is: dividend investing.

First, let’s break down investing into two categories. There are stocks that have dividends and stocks that don’t. Dividend stocks pay you a percentage of annual earnings based on the amount of stock that you own i...