That's a hard question with no perfect answer.

No one's perfect. 

Don't wait for the perfect deal to come up, the most important thing is to get started.

:o maybe I should stick to index funds and crypto :D Also, I'm not planning to pay just 20% down.

I decided to try this with a totally different niche a d course outline for crypto investing during this year's parting of the sea or great divide or whatever and the same thing happened, just in case anyone wanted to get the courses these dudes offer for the actually price they start with and not the blue 42 hook line and sinker stinker crap they soil our time with..good luck to a yone trying to do  etter for themselves and I hope we all get it right during this Ai era so we don't fill in the suicide line at the new world order building! 

At the moment I am trying to figure out what size is perfect, as I get towards that 1.7 million range, my marketing demographic becomes much smaller...Tough decisions already and have not even started haha

The villa is located in a quiet neighborhood on Massanutten Resort, making it the perfect place to enjoy all that the area has to offer.

For single family Gilber and Chandler are perfect.

I'm located in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area and am open to properties basically anywhere in southern Michigan (anything south of Muskegon from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron is fair game imo.)I now have a fairly large nest egg of cash beyond all of my other investments (stocks, bonds, treasuries, crypto) and I want to turn that cash into a real estate investment or investments and I think my deep background in tech, systems, and marketing should be able to help me substantially.It seems to me like BRRRR on multifamily units makes the most sense, but I'm open to suggestions.I'm basically retired at this point as the only work I do each week is 3-4 hours of consulting for larger tech companies and I'm on a couple advisory boards.What are the best first steps in building a team and creating the systems necessary to start making deals?

You will never find the perfect deal, there will always be better but its better to just go then to wait for mr perfect.I'm a newer investor myself with 9 doors across the midwest markets.