Its matter of time.Turnkey Company via SDIRA Wealth (biggerpockets.com)

We do have our retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, HSA accounts, etc… and will continue to invest money into those respective accounts for retirement purposes.With above stated, I would appreciate if  anyone can give me an honest opinion on how to start my journey as in what would be the best operation plan/strategy given my current situation and assumed future plans before partaking.Thanks in advance for anyone replying and assisting in the matter.

I would identify a market based on your current capacity and begin to network online and here on BP to form a solid trustworthy team to help you get going. 

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

You can't force equity when everything around you is also worth 60k...doesn't matter how nice you make it.

As for heat loss along the way why does it matter?

You can't really convert it to a rental property and then do a renovation as you will have no cash flow as a rental so I am not sure if you are trying to classify it somehow, but I don't think that matters at all.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

If you have never done this as a full time business I will throw caution to the wind it is not as easy or as profitable as online forums make it out to be, and if you need money for living this probably is not going to sustain your lifestyle for the first several years. 

STR idea might work as well although that's a matter of execution.