This is a good strategy for some areas and may enable you to purcahse the property at a high price than other investors who are looking to buy for cash flowing purposes.

This has enabled me to insist on being treated by attorneys, their staff and the legal community as a peer and NOT as a vendor.

If you can't do that, paint the steps with a bright red stripe, or place some type of safety tape on the stair enabling her to better see the steps, along with good lighting.

Jocie Moore, if I understand correctly, you're assuming that "pouring" more money into the property naturally extends the ROI period - that's basically a reasonable assumption, unless you have a good verifiable reason to believe the work done will enable you to receive higher rent for it OR a higher price when selling it - in which case, you can capitalize post-reno and cycle the money into new property/investments etc.

This will enable you to maximize the loan amount and not have to fund all the rehab out of pocket, which drains funds and traps equity.

I'd love to be able to build a team and gain the knowledge that I need to enable myself to make the first real step to aquiring some cash flowing real estate.

you're in a great position to enable the sale in an uptrending market. milk it, earn interest, then buy when everything is for sale bogo (buy one, get one free)!

Eventually I want to learn with you how crowdfunding can solve your problems and enable successful partnerships between real estate people and "the crowd".

We have done just that and now have some passive income that enabled my wife to retire.

 Congrats Trevor, house hacking is an amazing way to get into the real estate game. Renting