Our goal is to scale quickly and acquire as many properties as possible, with no upper limit on our ambitions.

Often pretty quickly....see something online at 1pm and I'm meeting you there at 2pm to see if we can lock it up before someone else did. 

Owning just a few typical properties in California turns you into a multimillionaire very quickly.

Table 1-4 is the Rollover Chart in IRS Publication 590 that can guide you.

Quote from @Shayan Sameer: Tapping into the equity is always great when it comes to recycling money quickly as you would a flip.

One bad tenant , one sewer line replacement and you will be wiping out any reserves quickly .  

Answer inquires as quick as you can.

Instead I will tell you that it can be done and you just need to have a quick call to go over the basics and be able to answer several questions.If you wanted to buy an investment property that would be even easier and there are a few programs you could use for this as well.

Quick question, which Guru did you learn SubTo from? 

Does anyone know of a vetted property manager that knows the market and area to help guide me through my first purchase?