They say when your running a race to follow the person who’s going a bit faster than you do you can challenge yourself and keep a good pace at the same time.

Vic Hartounian It all depends on what pace you wish to build up your rental portfolio.

Some  people assume the market will just keep on going up at a record pace.

They do not generally appreciate, though they can keep pace with inflation. 

.- Learn at your own pace. 

Going back to school full time and investing passively in syndications or even private money lending would help create passive streams of income while learning slowly at your pace.

@Joey AllisonYou could pace yourself and maybe start with a property that has the highest equity and move that property into a disposition phase in your portfolio.

(I can refinance sooner than 6 mo but only for the payoff amount.)Our strategy was to refinance within about 3 months and use the cash out (the difference between what we owe and about 75% LTV) to put into our next property and keep acquiring at a decent pace.

That might put me only slightly, if at all ahead of where I was by purchasing properties at a 1 per year pace.

At that pace, you could turn 1m to 5m in three years, then turn the 5m to 25m by year 6, then 25m to 125m in year 9.