If you accumulate assets and get rid of liabilities, lenders will gladly give you money. 

I have accumulated a portfolio with my own funds, and am now looking to scale and start to syndicate.  

Plus, Brandon's like 12, so he is still in the wealth accumulation phase of life. 

Scale (including the subset of professional management) will offer opportunities that over time challenge and often frustrates the accumulator of SFRs.

I figured I would finally reach out and share a little bit of my journey to date.Starting Out in REII started looking to go into REI after about three years of working out of college.I was putting a good amount of my salary away into my 401K, but was eventually overtime (many years) starting to accumulate enough money to either buy some stock or put down a deposit on a house in our area (Purchase Price $200,000).After talking to people that had success with renting and reading all the popular real estate books I could find.I ended up buying my first single family home rental property.Being decently tech and business savvy prior to buying the home I created a business and a website as I wanted to have something to show off.

Doing DIY plays more to my strengths currently also.As we accumulate more cash, we will look to hire out the rehab work.  

The second is to spend the next 10 years after that accumulating a rental portfolio to compliment my 401K so that I can finish working before my 60th birthday.My thinking is that we need to rely more on flips to reach Goal 1 and more on BRRR for Goal 2, but we will evaluate each opportunity as it comes and try to make the best choice. 

Keep stashing away from your w-2 job, resell things on Craigslist/eBay/Amazon, sell crafts stuff on Etsy, rent out a spare room on AirBnB (if you own your own single family home), do some freelance tasks on Elance or Taskrabbit - all to accumulate funds for that first downpayment.And all the while, attend some local REIA meetings to expand your network list.Hope this helps!

They will save what you are owed so that they can accumulate the "move in money" they will need at their next landlord victim.

Brandon Heath Jacob Thompson Buying a quad today (we're in escrow on one now) in San Diego, I'm projecting about 5% free cash flow (CoC) and 9% annual total profit (accumulated wealth on cash invested).