So new, in fact, that I'm still in the planning stages.

Welcome to the early stages of your successful real estate career.  

At this stage an investor with deep pockets could go in and purchase every property he could get his hands on and renovate for the purpose of providing "affordable housing" but the margins could be really tight and he may even take a loss on many of the properties.

This is mainly a buy and hold plan but I will probably end up flipping some houses because the cash will run out at some stage.

I’m just at a stage where I simply need to get out there and start knocking on some doors.

My business is a groundbreaking new concept that is at its infancy stage  but we are looking to scale quickly.  

I'm in the "fire" stage of the "ready, fire, aim" strategy and I mostly skipped the "ready" phase.

And, welcome to the next stage of "coming out." :-) I was in Naval Air myself, though it was back in '67 - '70.

I do not have FHA financing in place yet so I am not quite at the looking stage.  

I'm in a similar situation as you in the "education" stage, trying to read and learn as much as I can about the real estate investment business.