This comes from several data points, the first being the average age at which people are choosing to stop renting and buy their first home.

My question is what have people used with success to best track their time/investments over the year?

He has opened his doors up to us before to his personal house and cares about people actually making it.I got my first BRRRR property completed last year as a direct result of me being in the Academy.

Quote from @Angelous Ultionem: That's what I had researched myself but recently I've seen people talk about getting another 100 miles from the first property.

Looking for recommendations from people who have personally used a specific lender and had good experience.

Leveraging other people in any one type of these ways could give someone significantly higher odds on winning. 

Some people get lots of phone calls day one, but not day 31 or day 131 or day 331. 

This is a hard one for people to work with since a lot of investors that do not have a lot of experience do not want to get a deal, not know the full rehab, and fear that they will lose the deal/EMD. 

I know some people in Vegas, feel free to send me a message

So many people have been moving here from different area codes.