Look for a Dave Ramsey Financial Freedom class and maybe even attend it with your girlfriend.

Full disclosure, I still use construction loans, but only on multi million dollar deals.From my experience the BRRR strategy is used by inexperienced investors with limited Capital that believe it is their path to financial freedom.   

Technically for me, I'm trying to get into real estate investing in order to gain financial freedom and to spend more time with my family and also help take care of my family.

We shall all see each other very soon in the financial freedom world.

The money is just the “fun tickets” and a measure of success in solid investing, but what I really love about real estate investing is the freedom it provides – money, time to spend with family and to travel.

You may also simply say we did it once, it worked out well for us financially, and now we just want the freedom of not having so much capital tied up in one place.

U NEED your W 2 to qualify for loans full stop.. as your starting out. so just be realistic time freedom can come with a switch to full time RE agent you will get more free time but RE is very very tough.. and once you go self employeed you need two solid years of tax returns to qualify for funding..

For most people, the goal is financial freedom.

Real Estate has always been something I was interested in pursuing to achieve financial freedom and just never knew how.

It is the only property that I own, and my reason for buying it was because I wanted to have the freedom of renting combined with an ok investment--and that's what has happened.