Are you buying amazing deals or are they closer to market value?  

When I worked with a property management company, we had someone buy a unit (single family) that had a STR and marketed it as a STR.

I think with the time you’ll spend working on this, you could find 2-3 existing parks to buy in the meantime and not need to take anywhere near the same risk  

Creative financing to buy deals is another dangerous approach.

The current average rent on the new buy is $925.

@Kwanza P.Leveraged means using a loan (leverage) to buy the asset. 

To be more specific about what i'm looking to do: My 1-2 year goal is to employ the BRRRR strategy with SFHs and Condos by buying distressed / highly undervalued properties that need work (preferably all-cash) in low crime areas with strong rental demand, renovate them within budget (again preferably all-cash) and get them rent ready before refinancing them at the highest ARV possible.

One of my goals is to develop a solid buy box to streamline our underwriting process and make it more systematic.

I tried to look up properties that I could buy using my $6,000 bonus as a down payment but I was living in Los Angeles and couldn’t even buy a shack.

Imagine making millions of dollars over the course of your career and then having to pay 30-50% every year to uncle sam instead of compounding that cash over time.This is exactly what real estate professionals have learned to mitigate.To reduce their taxable income, they just buy a building every year, do a cost seg, and use depreciation to reduce their tax liability dramatically.Their personal wealth snowball grows much larger and much faster than their W2 counterparts who give most of their money back to the government each year.Following this strategy as a real estate professional is one of best ways to end up with a much larger net worth at the end of your career.