Once that is squared away you'll have more experience to explore investment property. 

Speed of building a portfolio (Cash-on-Cash return is a factor here)?

Starting to look at possibly investing there.Great, but also expensive and competitive.

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85LTV ask on a LTR rental is a tough ask, when adding an STR factor, nearly every lender will reduce max leverage by 5%. 

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Also, don’t sleep on building relationships with local realtors who specialize in investments.

Until you build trust with a team or contact you should view every property esp a MF that is a larger investment.

This reminds me of how Alex Hormozie describes "the value equation"; Experience in this case is the factor that determines the likelihood of achievement. 

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