Then add in the fact that you can get room mates to further reduce your expense it can more or less achieve very similar results as buying a house to house hack.

Partnerships are much easier and you can achieve pretty much the same results: you raise funds for specific projects and create a legal entity for that project, electing yourself as a member of the partnership so you can benefit from any gains without complicated filings.

Really setting tangible goals, and starting with more simplistic flips can help me achieve the experience and courage I need to really dive  in.

As for what you should be looking for, I think that I'd lump NYC along with SFO and Los Angeles as one of the absolute toughest places in the country to achieve financial freedom.

Set your goal, plan your steps to achieve that goal and master each step till you can duplicate it, then scale it to larger properties and investments.  

Brett also took afterward to walk the property and give a first-hand assessment.

Speaking with first hand experience, I moved from one location to another simply because of the prospect of better schools my kids could attend.  

The Key of course is picking the sub markets - @Kevin Smith you're experiencing that first hand with your hand in both the Austin, TPA,  and the Orlando market and the differences tween them in terms of where they are in the cyclical curve..

I worked 60 hours a week for the last 10 years to achieve this. 

The property needs to be renovated to achieve maxium cash flow.