My husband and I are Teachers and Nurses but dream of supplementing our W2 jobs with passive/investment income. 

My overall goal is to buy enough doors to supplement working full time so one day I can focus full-time on becoming an entrepreneur.

These do require more time and organization though.Looking forward, after 5+ years of owning a property, assuming you bought in an appreciating area, you should have enough equity built up via tenants paying down your mortgage for you and appreciation to refinance out of the VA loan (if you haven't already) or even cashout to buy more or to supplement your earnings.Theoretically, if you have enough properties you could refinance at least one a year.

We had PM teams that ran, on average, at 2x staffing for sec8, and FT maintenance staff supplemented with PT and outside vendors.  

Looking to create a few businesses on the farm to help supplement our goals.

If you really want to supplement your income, my thought would be to take out a HE loan (or some other 2nd position loan) and use that to fund a down payment on a property.

I want to get into real estate investing on the side for the long term goal of hopefully retiring early and supplementing income.

In addition we would like the flexibility for me to be able to supplement my income or leave my employer as we see fit.

You can work limited hours in so many different capacities that you want to keep that for longer than you think to keep supplementing more options.

However my wife does buy bikinis sight unseenHowever....that is about as far as I go in agreeing with youThe clients of Morris Invest have reported--Endless lies about the scope, state of completion of rehab, lack of accounting of rehab funds and flat out crappy work and in some cases no work at all done-Leases on properties that are vacant, supplementing the actually amount of rent without the clients knowledge in order to increase returns.