I've found success in passive investing as a means to learn the industry since my money is put to work but more experienced sponsors are doing the heavy lifting and I can learn from everything they're doing.

Here’s a bit about my current situation and goals:Current Rentals:Number of Properties: 1Type of Property: Single-family home (we lived in it and turned it into a rental when we moved out)Location: Corpus Christi, TXInvestment Goals:Short-term Goal: Acquire more properties and build an equity-heavy portfolio to have leverage if needed.Long-term Goal: Build a portfolio that provides enough cash flow to cover all living expenses.Focus: Expand my portfolio, preferably to at least 10 properties in the next 10 years.Financials:Current Monthly Cash Flow: Close to breakeven (potentially negative by $20, factoring in reserves).Future Investment Budget: No savings at the moment.

A few years of no/low premium increases coupled with crazy inflation, lousy investment returns, and heavy losses and they're just trying to get back to some stability and end their losses.

Market price of available units skyrockets as demand quintuples over night. 

For us, its about creating posititve impact, long-term capital appreciation, and decent cashflow, so we are investing in low-to-moderate income heavy value-add 3/2 SFRS in southern DFW.

If you're a one-man army, let some of this automated technology do the heavy lifting so you can be the problem solver for that motivated seller. 

I have found at this point his advice is become less and less useful and seems to push heavy for giving him large sums of money to enter into partnerships. 

My experience is that REIA tends to be heavy-handed with the sales pitch, while PIN is more investor focused.

We used to have in-house inspectors but it was hard to scale and with our heavies season being that of summer months, at 1000+ units we weren't able to hire enough inspectors for the last day of month move outs and first day of month move ins and then still keep them fully-employed in our slower season in fall/winter.

To give you a bit of background, I know very little about bookkeeping beyond managing my budget for the last three decades (ugh), so this is all pretty new to me.Here’s my current setup:I’ve had a property management company using AppFolio to handle the heavy lifting – rent collection, owner distributions, expenses, and the whole shebang.