Eventually...pretty much all of it.

This will then allow you to be very intentional in your journey going forward which can lead to your eventual success.

Find PMLs PMPs or buyers first and bring them deals, if you consistently bring deals they could eventually fund your flips 100% but they wont fully fund your first one and let you take off.

My wife got her Real Estate license to start looking for houses ourselves, and I was eventually able to leave my W2 job as a PT that I hated and despised, and because a Realtor as well.

What I am trying to avoid: renting for 2 years to eventually end up getting a condo/duplex later on or the flip side investing so much into a condo/duplex, and just overall not having it make sense with this situation.

If you can stomach losing it, you sound like you will be ok eventually.

Eventually I would like to fund these deals through doing 1-2 flips and / or spec houses a year.

Over the years I've worked with brokers that would figure out 6 different ways to do a deal and then we'd compare them all against what the specific goal for the deal is.Mike I felt I didn’t need a broker for a simple cash out refinance but when you look at the bigger picture of the eventual purchase and go backwards to the cash out refi maybe it’s wise to use one. 

., the strategies to profit, especially in a takeover situation) in the past and eventually let it go to chase simpler things.  

Despite every plumber telling me that speaking with the city and the utility company was a dead end I was able to eventually get to the #2 guy at Citizens, the utility company.