It really all comes down to your income how long it will take but Scott Trench's Set for Life talks about reducing your expenses to about $2k a month and within a year if you earn a median salary of 50k you're going to have 25k to deploy.

The reason it was done this way is because I work for the military and am deployed at least 10 months out of the year.

Where funds will be raising blind capital to deploy into several deals.A great book to learn more about syndication is Best Ever Apartment SyndicationIt's not a super easy space to break into, raising capital is hard, especially if you are just getting going in RE. 

Here are 10 considerations/tips from a much longer blog post I wrote:Is your career field and deployment timeline/frequency compatible?

We deployed professional property management to combat this. 

There is too much money out there waiting to be deployed.

Hi everyone,     I've got a situation I'm trying to figure out. I have 5 properties in the city I live in, but I'm about to move so I need to decide do I keep them and go long distance or sell them and redeploy the ca...

Stabilized it and sold it, re-deploying into 2 nicer seller-financed houses that had reasonable land values and more appreciation potential, but less cash-flow.

Plenty of investors would prefer less upside, medium risk if it allowed them to deploy more money over a longer period of time.

We used tax free money from our many deployments as down payments on properties.