Rely heavily on the local team you build up and stick to the first page of rentals on Zillow, they seem to have a lot of high fliers on there.

And if you have your RE license it will help you not only in your future pursuits for real estate and your financial freedom but it will let you build up a side hustle that can break you free of the 9-5 while still having the security of the W-2 until you have a client base built up. 

My only draw back is that my goal is financial freedom and setting up a way to build up a portfolio for retirement.

I am actually looking for a good REIA to help build up my network around the area. 

Guess I am waiting for the equity to build up.

Before I had a successful track record, I used my own money/credit lines in order build up credibility.  

From an operational stand point this also gives us the ability to non-renew any tenants for any reason once they're month-to-month, as opposed to having to build up 5 day notices, 14 days, and going through with evictions if we have an issue arise with a tenant. 

I want to use the BRRRR strategy but I plan on doing a couple conventional investments to build up experience before I bring in a private lender. 

I agree with Bruce, start with areas that will build up your life...where do you work?

The property was in Lawrence and yes I will be using the fix and flip line of credit to build up a portfolio of BRRRR properties and save tax money on those.I will be paying the capital gains on this property so that I may qualify for the $500K line of credit.