buy house  find renter rent house maintain house pray they pay rent and dont destroy it.

However, co-living allows you to acquire properties with as little as 0%-5% down, drastically reducing the amount of cash required.Instead of needing $100K+ to buy a rental, a co-living strategy lets you start with a fraction of the cost while achieving higher returns.3.

He buys small barns and converts them into 2-3 bed cabins.

To get a rough ballpark, sure, but sometimes you'll be way, way off like we've seen with the iBuyers who it turns out were too smart for their own good and ended up buying high and selling low due to to relying on data and not actual organic, boots on the ground experience pulling accurate comps like an appraiser or realtor who knows the market on not just a block by block or street by street but a house by house level.

I’d start with a smaller deal - buy a 6 to 12 unit say - raise money from your social and professional sphere - people who know you - who you have a beer with etc.

The buy in would be very flexible terms.

After that, we are looking to buy maybe 1 or 2 more SFH this year. 

It sounds like you have a great background for investing as well as assisting other real estate investors in buying suitable real estate. 

If you aren’t saving the money up to buy another property chances are nothing will pay a higher rate than paying it towards your mortgage.

Rents too. 5-10% more reduction and I will be buying here.