I help and show people how to use some of their savings to create streams of income.

Conversion rates and income streams will increase dramatically when we teach our pony new tricks.

If you bought 4 a year for say 3-4 years and had 12-16 properties and 3,000-5000k a month in a much more passive and steady stream of income then wholesaling could ever be.

So far I'm thinking buy and hold for a relatively passive income stream, but the more I've been reading, the more interesting opportunities I've been learning about!

My end goal is to get another stream of income that will take me into a comfortable retirement.  

Cap Rates really don't apply until you get into scenarios where there are multiple streams of income on a property.

You can improve marketing, revenue streams, cut expenses just like any other property for the value add.

. $10,000 isn't very much in the way of a partial, definitely not enough for a full note (though I have seen some $16-18k notes recently), so the partial that you buy would have to come from someone who may have bought the note with intent to just keep it.As Bill mentioned, when you buy a partial, you're buying the front end payment stream.

I love my day job as a software engineer but want to have multiple revenue streams and rental properties look like a good opportunity for steady cashflow and long term wealth.

Yes, the headache will be there, but sounds like you'll have a team and if you can target 8-10 of these deals, you'll have a nice stream of income...