The Refi would be recycling the money again and again as well. 

As for strategy, if you have enough in the HELOC (or cash after a refi) to buy and rehab properties outright so you can BRRRR, that will let you grow the fastest since you will be able to recycle that money over and over. 

Investors would be able to purchase properties through easy qualification based on long-term market rent, plug them into their fine-tuned STR machine and then execute a cash-out refinance a year later; banking higher leverage and recycling STR cash flows into more properties.In 2021, during a blazing-hot real estate market, property prices were rising and investors who had become professionals in the STR space began struggling to qualify to buy properties that wouldn’t qualify under long-term market rent.

It is not the only way, but it is useful starting out to be able to recycle capital.

I’m basically recycling funds or at least trying to every 3-6 months.

Imagine doing a brrrr and in 7 months it’s rented and you do your refi and when done you’ve got $70k instead of $60, because you did such a gosh darn good job getting all that capital recycled back out, and your value was so worthwhile that the appraisal comes in above what you expected.

BRRRR seems to be the best bang-for-my-buck (if done right) since you can essentially recycle your capital over and over.

EVs are decades away from being practical, they need to figure out how to 1)  not rape the environment both during the building and recycling stages, 2) get the costs down and 3) provide a serious power supply for them that does not rely on fossil fuels.

This way I can recycle my money faster to build my portfolio.  

I also love looking at RE deals, syndication deals and analyzing stocks...so that will never stop...and my only regret is that I didn't start sooner.I don't think 3-5 years is realistic, especially considering where we are in the RE cycle.