JeffWe lead a couple investor meet up groups in person and live stream about the Central Ohio real estate market.

You're absolutely right—positive cash flow from rentals can vary significantly depending on factors like property costs, financing, and the ever changing market conditions.For real estate the challenge isn't just accumulating properties but creating a framework that builds net worth more strategically and sustainably.Cash Flow can be generated in many ways, my intention was to better understand the investor mindset and their approach, if they wanted to share.Based on your example, if using conservative calculations at $100K/door, you would pay $20M for access to $40K/month. 

You can learn to do this independently or get a rockstar REALTOR to lead the way.

My current brokerage does not help generate any leads or anything like that.

Now that I am in position, I would like to place a mobile home to generate some passive income, but I don't want to use my savings for the down payment.

Capital raising lead generation tools, email templates, automations, and automated processes.

. :)This is especially true if you rely on furnishedfinder.com as your primary lead source (which you shouldn't, but that's another post) as when you make that connection with a prospective resident, you are selling yourself as a landlord as much as you are the property as a place to live.

Unfortunately I was not able to put much away for retirement most of my life so I was thinking about attempting to buy 4 rental units over the next 4 years with the hopes of building up something that could generate income in 5 to 7 years to supplement my retirement at 68.

Additionally, Airbnb income during this period could generate steady cash flow, though market conditions and regulatory risks should be considered.

Detroit is a great place for that, but as you probably already know, it takes work and strategy.For background, I moved from CA to Troy, MI, back in 2017, lived there for five years, and built my Detroit portfolio aggressively—12 doors in 2.5 years, generating $16,000/month in gross rents.