In particular, I'd suggest asking those folks about what types of challenges they encountered, lessons they learned, and mistakes they made with OOS REI ...It's a lot easier, safer, quicker, and cheaper to learn from other peoples' mistakes than to make your own...Good luck out there!

STR's are a different beast entirely, whether professionally managed or not, but they do allow for an easier/quicker exit than traditional commercial such as retail, office, warehouse, or multi-family.

It'll be cheaper and quicker taking the paneling out and making a clean finish. 

The advantage of using Fund and Grow versus the HELOC is that once you acquire the funding and transfer that debt to the the zero interest cards you can pay them down quicker and they don't report to your personal credit report.

I have some strategies to BRRR quicker than 6 months if you are looking to move quickly.

You might have to be quicker to scoop up the deal, but there's always deals everywhere.

The degrees I noted will help you generate real estate revenues quicker and in a more connected fashion than a degree in business or finance as others have suggested.

Much less than option 1, but much quicker timeframe.

You can take a million things for free on YouTube and here on BiggerPockets and listen to podcasts before spending money on something that won't get you anywhere quicker.

Initially I managed renting it out but as soon as I used a decent realtor it made it so much quicker and raised the rental amount.