I've tried various things: shorter inspection time period (typically it's 10 days here, and if you do a 3 or 5 day inspection time you can be attractive b/c the seller can get it back on market quicker if you find something you don't like during inspection period); non-refundable earnest money (maybe $1000 of money that you will not get back for any reason on your side - not if the seller breaches-- should the offer not go to completion - this shows you are an extremely interested buyer, but you could lose the money, so use cautiously and with the advice of your agent who knows how to correctly write that into the contract); put a limit on the repair request no required by lender - cap it at $0/as-is, or $500; a higher earnest money - like $5000, shows you are serious.

This is coming from personal experience, and the reason for this is you will have a larger pool of buyers to come look at the property so it will move quicker.

I noticed immediately that rents have risen even quicker than I realized and I am way under market on a couple properties.

As you are able to save more and get more experience with creative ways to finance a deal you'll be able to accumulate properties quicker and quicker. 

Even though retiring by 40 is an exceptionally early goal (or so I thought), we have realized that we can move that up WAY quicker by leveraging the fact that we have so much more disposable income than we need.After attending a BiggerPockets webinar, watching hours of YouTube videos and researching online, I have decided to take the plunge and buy my first rental property.

I have seen several posts this week in this style and it could easily confuse new investors and misrepresent LP and GP syndications as an easier or a quicker path to wealth.

I feel like I’d scale quicker leveraging debt that way .

Well I’m wanting to leverage debt in my favor to help me scale quicker .

Go Non-QM :) quicker closes, not on credit, and up to 80% LTV.

Historically speaking CMHC loans have taken a very long time for the analysts to crunch their numbers and approve the loans but we are being told that this process may be quicker with the select flex program but we will see.