And not to toot my own horn, but I haven't met a single decent handyman in Pittsburgh who doesn't own at least one rental property.I've been renovating properties with my once baby-soft teacher hands now for 13 years.

The 5 units average (net) $600/door, or the $3000/month take home my wonderful wife makes as a K-12 teacher.

It is like that saying "when the student is ready the teacher will appear".

@James HamlingFirst thank you to my high schoolSpeech teacher Mrs Farquhar.  

Experience is a...hard nosed teacher sometimes...

I'm not trying to be a mogul, just trying to dial in my retirement situation (I'm a teacher and the pension is looking light at this point and I don't have social security). 

I'm a high school business teacher (20+ years), run an online community for GenZ about early FI and REI, and have two books published by Bigger Pockets, which you should definitely use in your class.

Now I’m looking to scale to something a little larger that will be a buy and hold for my retirement—something very local to me in Fruitland ID, so that I can manage the units.My wife and I are both teachers, and enjoy pursuing more RE investing. 

How people started is one of the most compelling and sought after pieces of info about anyone someone meets in this business, both for people seeking teachers, and for others understanding where a student is at.For instance someone who's an expert at traditional real estate investing is not going to come over here and start telling me how to invest my 500K portfolio to get a % return over the next 2 decades, because they know that's 100% the opposite of both my situation and goals

The best teacher is getting in the fray and learning in real time, in that space.