@Matt "Roar" Gardner Thanks Matt!

What they have in the works to complete by 2023 does not even meet twenty percent of demand. 

Royal Oak is NOT fun to negotiate with these days:( Now twenty years ago it was waaay different.How did you turn a small bungalow into 3 units?

The guy whose business model I'm following most closely was an immigrant who was one of Fred Rogers' apprentice stage carpenters back in the day -- by the time the show ended in 2001, this guy had eight SRF rental properties in his target area, and he expanded to twenty-five before he retired and got out in 2010.

I worked in the oil field on boats and ships for twenty years and I am, "The Seasick Sailor Rowing Home." 

You are advocating Buy and Hold Rental and yet as a Broker you are Flipping and Selling properties saying that,"If you had just been able to hold on for another ten to twenty years, you would now be sitting pretty!"

By the time I got to twenty units, I kept $20,000 in liquid cash.  

We also have over the few years that we have been in the workforce have managed to clump up a fairly substantial amount of funds that we all equally put in since we turned sixteen and have accumulated roughly twenty-five thousand dollars from working part time jobs and other odd jobs we did throughout high school. 

In my early twenties and I love to workout and learn about real estate and everything related!!

We bought our first houses on our twenties, basically for buy and hold, using regular bank loans.When she turned 30, she was diagnosed with Mody (Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young) diabetes (a rare string that appears after later).We went to our (all life) bank to ask a loan for yet another investment and, of course, given her new condition, her life insurance more than doubled (I don't know how it works in other countries, but here the bank demands a life insurance with each loan).