While most of my deals did make money, without a roadmap you get no where fast.

Hi @Vidal Gonzales I'm a lender and want to let you know there are no special tricks, but there are methods to get an understanding of your purchasing power and a roadmap to achieving your goals.There are 2 ways to buy single family and multifamily homes (<4 units) when working with a lender: Income based and asset performance based.Income Based Loans: These are your typical, vanilla, regular loans that you know about from talking with your family, your friends, and many investors you hear about on BP.

@Andrew Postell gave you a good road map to start off with and general framework to work within.

It's a pretty good roadmap of the process.I also recommend networking with local investors. 

If you want 20 units in 5 years to meet your passive income goals, then create a realistic plan that achieves that goal.Once you have your roadmap you can start filling out some short term goals to help you meet your longer term goals.

I try to be straight forward with my tenants leaving all emotion out of it and just give them a road map as to what the consequences are if the following behavior continues and that it is "out of my hands."

We have a road-map to expand nationally, but one thing at a time :)@Zane Bradshaw Thank you.

The settlement sheet is the road map.

.  :-)  I really don't think much about others and their ways beyond "comparing" what they are doing to make sure I don't have the road map upside down the entire time.  

I need a roadmap and a spreadsheet.