I'm trying to soak up every piece I can get.

I’m essentially a newbie doing my first project trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can.  

We’re as we have to keep recycling our seed money it’s hard to go much faster than that.

In my opinion, keep your secure job (for now) and use all of your free time to network, soak up knowledge, gain a mentor, etc that you possibly can until you have the capital for your first deal.

Looking for Seed Capital tips!

If you use latex the nicotine will soak through even latex primer paints.

your goals while commendable are not realistic the only way you do what your describing  10 million etc. is to become an operator.. and big time one at that.. real estate is a LOOOOONG game  not sure what or who put it in your mind that you could go from zero or basically a few hundred grand in seed capital to 10mil of free and clear props in 10 years.you may want to rethink your goals and get just a tad more realistic..

I have been reading the blogs and forums around here soaking up every ounce of information I can!!

We did a VC seed type of project a while ago and were able to go about it that way.

When the loans are paid off, keep funneling that same amount of money from the loan payments into your "seed money" pot and work your plan hard.