@John TeachoutHi John, I really like your outlook on this.. my gut is telling me what you’re saying I think.. kind of want to start as low risk as possible and get some real experience “under my belt”.

At first ideas might not make the most scenes, but spending 10 minutes a day means by the year you'll have over 60 hours of knowledge under your belt.

@Adam Lowe If you haven't considered house hacking already, that is a great place to start investing and you can get some easy property management experience under your belt as well!

Once you have a couple properties under your belt, go for the harder stuff.best of luck!

I would just strongly encourage you to keep your W-2 job until you have a few of them under your belt.

Feel out your assets and then expand after you have a more than a year under your belt. 

Check out the CFPB web site and the whistle blower options.

I am a lot further along in my education than when we last talked and I am very close to having the tools in my belt that I need to start landing deals.

As we get more experience under our belt, though, we may utilize leverage conservatively to grow our portfolio faster.  

But a belt sander might work even better if there's a lot of sanding.