See the illustration below (click to enlarge).Goals“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

You’re already way ahead by getting started young—keep going!

It's meeting people a little ahead of you that really make it seem doable.

Just a heads up, there is really no turn-key in real estate.

Looking ahead, I’m aiming to start investing in long-term opportunities in Spring 2025. 

In my experience, these are the guys that want draws all the time (and it is easy to get ahead on them based on percentage).I tend to avoid the guys that can "start right now".  

It is not really apples to apples, but generally speaking the more money invested the further ahead you will be eventually in the future, just because your compounding base is higher, regardless of where the money comes from - ie, 4 300k properties are 1.2 million on property, which is double the 600k property.

Here is a link to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/sz6udf/who_has_...Also, I received an email to review them so I clicked on their Google Reviews and saw that they had 4.8 Stars.

It seems like I need to check further away from the DMV area.My feelings are if you want “cash flow” you should buy a bond (I really like the tips rate right now) there is next to no reason to buy real estate for cash flow, if you are going to buy you should buy with appreciation in mind, which is not to say that’s the route I’d go, I’ve been liquidating properties to put in stocks and money market funds over the last few years and u just did the math and I’ve come out well ahead, but just to say there are arguments for stocks/bonds, there are arguments for levered appreciation, but the cap rates pretty much anywhere aren’t worth it vs an inflation protected bond, especially since a 3/rd of inflation is real estate anywhere, you could get “cash flow” and inflation protection much easier through a tips.

@Renee R. just a heads up that there can be significant tax implications to hiring a property manager vs. self-manage.