Besides, I want to learn how to do my own direct mail campaigns, since I do believe it is a necessary skill in order to get to the next level.I am sure there must be way, and I am sure there are plenty of investors solving this issue successfully. 

Start with house hacking, invest in credit and education, and leverage electrical skills.

IF you try to obtain it without a skilled Expediter who has experience getting one, you are certainly not putting your best into attaining it.That being said, I have known some expediters who are supposed to be really good make mistakes or don't have the proper knowledge either.

Go drive for Uber in your spare time, leverage a skill or trade you have and bust your hump working 7 days a week. 

They brought their high-quality hospitality skills with them and the rooms listed have significantly improved over the same time period.

With your husband’s skills, assisting on fix-and-flip or BRRRR projects could offer hands-on experience.

You have to change the way think and know you are chasing time freedom.To get time freedom, you use all of your skills and assets, but you don't scale too quickly.

Even at 18 you may have some skills that you have learned like sales, marketing, research, data analysis, and others. 

Revenue management is a skill.

You bring the skills; they bring the funds—win-win.Private Money Lending: Find people (friends, family, colleagues) interested in real estate but not actively involved.