I am looking at homes online on a daily basis, but right now I have zero'd in on a few zip codes that I believe that 1% of rent to purchase price is pretty attainable (but I'd like to approach 1.1% or more if possible). 

(I kicked cancers ***😊) I I have been reading books,listening to podcast,and blogs for a long time and have started the work of attaining list and bird dogging to do wholesale transactions.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nothing you said here is a solid reason, to not attain a cash flowing unit. 1. not experienced with construction?

A little background on myself, I'm 21 years old, still in undergrad and in the final stages of attaining my salesperson license.

It would need to be something attainable relatively quick.

Retired at 40 is starting to look like an attainable goal which blows my mind since it was a joke only a couple of years ago. 

Then once you have that in place, put together an action plan (specific) to get yourself off the couch and on the path to attain your goals.

To each his own, but it will likely take creative thinking and doing what others aren't willing to do to attain success in real estate investing. 

-What are the first couple steps in attaining a property?

We're certainly not there yet however.To sum up my frustration and the use of that dirty word GREED...I stand behind my use of the word, but a better way of putting it would have been to say that one should really consider their motives in scaling up as much as possible, even after they've attained significant scale.