I buy and hold and do short term rentals and mid term rentals.Located in Racine Wisconsin  @Gabriel Williams Congrats on your portfolio.

I've always had more of the Warren Buffet mentality, "hold for life", when it comes to my portfolio.

TurnKey, Buy-and-holds, flips, or maybe long-term rentals?

3: I have no idea how to determine how much to borrow verses pay cash?

I included stats on percent unleveraged purchases and that many of those fairly low percent cash purchases in fact use unseen leverage HML, private lending, etc and some are short term cash holds such as a flip or a brrrr that gets financed not long after purchase.  

If you ever want to get together for coffee and bounce ideas off of each other from one newbie to another, let me know!  

Everything is case by case but from what I've seen you can almost never loose holding long term.

I have an idea of an initial investment and returns I would like to hit, but would love to speak with those of actual experience to see if my numbers are realistic.

Denver and its surrounds have particularly active markets and a lot of active individuals offering ancillary services so I'd suggest you research those available services you're looking at offering to help you get an idea for what is well covered, what is lacking and what your competitor's pricing looks like.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.