Hey Bruce, if I go through a bank I am looking at down payment of upwards of 80k, so seller financed is my preference because of the low up front cost of attaining the property.

Your price point of $100-$150k is definitely attainable here in Ohio.

Great background you're building with construction experience, you have chosen the best way to get started in real estate (house hacking), you are focusing on education (Best place is BP, hands down), and you have clear, attainable, goals for now and next 5-10 years.Nice work! 

Downside: much slower progress attaining real estate.

I'm currently a full time professional student, and am looking to use real estate as a means of paying off my student loans and attaining financial freedom.Currently looking at the high point, NC area for investment opportunities.

I think I can get to that number before 40 but want to make it attainable.

If everything goes right, with an officer pension and a CRNA W2 job when I leave, plus working to pay off multiple rentals, I feel like the $100k/month is attainable. 

In my experience cash flow and appreciative markets are usually on opposite ends -- for example: You can certainly attain a cash on cash ROI of 20-50% on certain properties but usually properties like that are not in desirable neighborhoods or are in blighted areas, which is why your ROI is so high (you paid less, because there is less desirability, unless you paid in cash) and such properties on paper may show an ROI of 20-50% but in reality it may not be so because such properties either 1)usually attract an unstable tenant base which translates into economic or physical vacancy and/or 2) such properties are usually neglected or older and thus your are spending much more $ on repairs/CapEx etc.

Keep the focus and you will attain your goals.

The rising interest rates have certainly made things tricky, but positive cash flow is still rather easily attainable with the right property.