For example, buy properties with a 10% return, and you will have 2500ish to reduce that $5K expense a month; then you can save more money quicker, gain more skills to increase your active income to pour into LTRs to get that ROI up to quit your job in 1-2 years.

Knowing where the good areas start and stop is a skill not everyone possesses.

Sharpen your sales skils / people skills.

At the moment, I just don’t have the funds but I am sharpening my skills for when I get there!

I am wanting to enter the REI world but will not have time or skills to self manage.

A couple of book recommendations:- David Greene's 'Skill' & 'Sold'- Hyper Local, Hyper Fast Agent by Dan Lesniak- Gary Keller's Millionaire Real Estate Agent- Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Successful PeopleSoak up the practical advice and apply it.The main takeaways I got from these books:- A day where you don't work to generate leads is a day off.

I was following James Dainard on biggerpockets and On the Market podcast for long time I was really impressed with skills and experience and successful journey.

One of my skills in real estate is underwriting real estate opportunities.

I have been very successful at the role I'm in now of finding leads, using deal machine and podio to run it at mass and cold call them and my skills have been tuned up a bit through that.

2) On the second 'Hone Your Skills' bullet point, I'm getting an answer of $57000, not $63k like the back of the book says