People like to talk about the snowball effect of owning cashflow homes, but with growth rate properties it isn't a snowball, its an avalanche once you start tapping in to that equity.Cashflow is safety, it is stability, it buffers you against economic downturns and minimizes the chances of you completely failing and losing everything. 

To summarize, multiplying the headaches and work with multiple single family homes is not worth the cash flow.

Start with market rent and multiply:85% for lineal descendants and ancestors, up to 2 generations90% for brothers and sisters 95% for 2nd and 3rd cousins (2% extra if partially removed)125% for monster-in-law (whoops, mean mother-in law), unless you actually like her and value your marriage, then drop to 50% and count yourself ahead.

Multiply that by 100 business meals a year for a self employed person, and you get the idea.

We buy detached single family homes, but you can definitely go with a town-home if that's what you'd prefer- you'd want to focus on large square footage, high bedroom count, and consider avoiding luxury features that add cost like rooftop decks unless they're important to you.Typically house hacks operate similar to a home office deduction - take your eligible, deductible expenses and multiply them by the portion of the house that is a rental (for example, if you buy a 4 bedroom town-home and live in one bedroom you could deduct approximately 75% of eligible expenses).

Then the avalanche of tirekickers calling.

While I agree that the effort you put into wholesaling would be multiplied if you were an licensed agent if you cant get licensed right now then do something.

Get a HELOC and use it to purchase a long term buy and hold, after gaining employment, use debt avalanche to pay off as quickly as possible.

Based on this knowledge you can multiply Joe's CPC by his needed clicks (4 x 625) which would equal 2,500.I will mention that I don't pay attention to the CPC much but rather the CPA...

@Dan Zaccardi Take the population of a town, multiply that number by itself, then add to the result the population of the town and then divide the result by the population.