I'm wondering if it would be smarter to save up for 20% down to speed things up but this will take me longer to get started  Let me know what you think, any advice is very appreciated.

We know it’s super important to be proactive so it will work perfectly every time, and we are doing so to stay ahead of that.2) Related to printing smudges on postcards - this is an industry wide issue with the USPS’s high speed sorting machines that are used for barcoded mail.

@James Carlson just an FYI so you can stay up to speed on this!

Coaching probably speeds things up for many, but lets just say you spend $50,000 on coaching and all the coaches are in retrenchment mode right now and coach you to be pencils down. 

You can house hack while doing this too to really speed up how fast you can scale.

My IT background also helped me speed up processes.

Which resources would you recommend for me to read up on to get fully up to speed?

It's all I used starting out and I still use it for ease and speed when I need a number quick and dirty.

Before we bought our new house which wasn't quite planned, we refinanced our townhouse to a 15 year mortgage to speed up paying it off.

All you need to do is find a lender that understands and specializes in working with BRRRR method investors that flip at scale and at speed.