I had no prior experience, so I'm looking at this as a good learning tool, and hopefully as I get better, I can Branch out for some properties that might require a bit more sweat equity, but yield bigger payoffs.

Some bring only money, some bring only sweat/deal and some split it 50/50, it all depends on circumstance.Generally speaking the BRRRR works when you buy the property for cash under market value then rehab it where your total all in cost is about 75% of ARV, then refi out the 75% of appraisal.  

As a contractor, you are bringing in the sweat equity, but maybe not the legal aspects. 

It is called. " sweat equity", but I know this is definitely not for everyone.

So even starting out a step ahead of others, it still takes a long time, blood, sweat, and tears.If you're looking for reasonable time lines for someone who isn't currently involved in real estate (and I admittedly don't know your full story either, so maybe you are involved with real estate in some fashion currently), I'd say it'll take 12 years to build a solid business you can live off of, if you did it 24/7/365 for all of those years. 

Purchase price: $127,650 Cash invested: $5,000 This is my current residence that I am working on myself to create sweat equity.

When it comes right down to it, I’m looking to network and learn from those of you in the industry, while providing value in the form of sweat equity.

Once you do you will have the time to earn sweat equity while using these individual's money on deals that you find. 

And I’m also actually a base line construction worker but I have many connections that can teach me how to put lots of sweat equity into it all.

It's awesome that you did a gut rehab with just $30k (and sweat equity.)