That for sure has had an affect on appreciation growth in certain markets, while boosted suburban markets faster than normal.  

If so maybe you can start to charge these back to help boosts your return.

Most like it because it's a great way to boost their credit score.It's very cheap for me: $14.95 for each account, which includes the 1st tenant, and then $2 for each tenant thereafter.

Seeing as there is just the two of you, you could buy a place that's older and add a quite nice suite that YOU could live in (it'll be new once you renovate it - smaller but new and functional) while you rent out the rest of the house for a quite nice boost to your income.Buy the ugliest house on the nicest block and make sure parking won't be a problem.  

Try paying for a marketing AD boost in Apartments.com.

Potential Mentor says that because you're offering owner financing you can typically boost the sale price 10% and the interest 2% (assuming the original owner had an average flat rate) and collect 10% down, creating an early payday plus pretty good passive income.If you can't find a buyer within your option period you walk away, making the risks comparable to wholesaling.

If you can get a 4 unit and a basement, that would be ideal and create major cash flow and equity creation, plus you can not worry about a property manager and boost your yield.

Does anyone have any tips on things I can do to get my foot in the door or boost my resume to meet the criteria for positions in this industry?

Live below you means, sure, but some of this advice...I dunno.Of course I get that living on $20,000 a year, for example, would provide a big boost to my wealth building but I've lived on that income before, as I'm sure many of us have, and I don't recall it being very pleasant. 

One of the interesting skills I picked up was scraping data off the internet, cleaning it up, and normalizing it to boost various predictive algorithms.