I’m more of a traditional, 25% down using conventional financing with $20k in reserves type of investor so my head is spinning.

If you want a spin off- buy, lie, and die!

If you can spin the transaction and make it less about the dollars and make it about a relationship that you have cultivated, that is your in.  

My head starts to spin on figure out how they hell I would go about owning such a thing.If you had 3-7 years to accomplish this, what would you do? 

We also have a little spinning wheel that just keeps moving if there is a leak.

If the hope is to spin off extra money to buy rentals, that isn't unreasonable, but the focus to start should be on flipping houses only because that will be the thrust of your work for at least several months to start.

As you suspected, I have been spinning my wheels in my career gaining ground slowly and only recently have I made any significant gains in my “market value”.

While you have a ton of questions spinning in your head it will become more clear over time.

You could even pull all of that and send it through Azure machine learning or something with the data massaged to look for good deals for you.Paul definitely got my wheels spinning, very good episode I will go back and watch again and continue finding good deals with data.

All that aside Home Depot sells 10 year built in lithium powered smoke detectors for 24$ where the battery is not removable and put it up as high as possible screw it directly into the wall instead of a spin off plate so it can’t be easily taken down