Our focus is on value-add (renovation, amenity enhancement) in transit-oriented locations in selected geographic areas with potential for rental growth through area amenities & job opportunities just to name a few attributes.

Yes, you can accelerate your portfolio and enhance it by adding a multi-family, you can take it to the next level by even consider living in one half and renting the other "house-hacking," if you are an owner occupant you can even use a 203k loan and acquire the home using 3.5% down and finance the entire renovation, as long as you stay within market value, this lets you enter the marketplace with very little down and use the banks money to renovate it.

Comps from within the same complex are important because differences in dues structure and the stability of the HOA can cause similar units in neighboring complexes to sell for wildly different prices.I wouldn't expect 100% financing, that is more myth than reality.

I side with the prespective that a lot of others have already provided within this forum; however, I did not hear the obvious/ traditional beginners method/approach mentioned.That method/approach being: 1.) obtaining a good deal which equates to me at a minimum of 10-15% (the more the better) below market value based upon CMA (this approach protects you in the case of a slight market downturn)2.) utilizing the business line of credit of $50k to make the 25% down payment (this down payment helps enhance the profit spread you will be able to collect each month in rent from your tenants minus your mortgage and loan repayment)3.)

Gerber in The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It  (on Amazon http://amzn.to/1Bs4HEh) is one where you as the owner doesn't work in the business but on the business and they can't take extend periods away from the business and they nor the business not suffer financially.

I'd love to pay our personal bills in full with MY thing!

Again, love the site, hope you take this as a friendly enhancement request.

In my experience, overnight success in RE is largely a myth.  

My thing is, from what I saw from the threads from the earlier years is that they we’re trying to build that business.

That is a common myth on BP.