House hacking is the best tried-and-true method for new investors in my opinion.

I currently work in the turnkey investment world helping investors create a real estate portfolio, if you are ever interested in trading different strategies and goals, I'd love to connect! 

Probably going to be a check.Smart contractors are starting to understand that convenience matters to customers and being able to take different methods of payment can help them collect their money.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

I've been using the BRRRR method more recently with some success.

He is a contractor by trade and I am the sales and numbers guy to loosely define us.

Sure, I could look for a higher paying job, but I was wondering if anyone has any creative short-term methods to improve my ratio.

Development has different risk profiles and longer timelines BUT when you have the right team working together and you build a pipeline of projects it can be very financially rewarding without trading your time for dollars.

Also, not very easy to use typical methods of valuation like comparable sales - there is no public tax assessor's website that you can just freely grab this from. 

This cap rate is not completely out of the realm of what things are trading at.