It's purely a networking lunch and each meeting starts with everyone introducing themselves and stating what they are interested in doing.  

Pure guesswork at this point, but I am thinking 4 - 6 properties...?

I could buy a purely income property that will give me a better foundation for the future, and live in a mediocre rental (or my dad's spare bedroom, but no thanks).

You can find the interviews they do on a number of different media platforms and are a PURE GOLD MINE of information on building wealth in real estate.

Incredibly difficult to get off 0 as well, and the only way I did it was to finally convince my bank after a year to give me a loan purely to take me off 0 and even then it took a human underwriter to step in.

Initial acquisition was done purely with cash that I received via private investment.  

Or was this a pure investment from the start?

The fast response was pure luck @Daniel Castellano haha I just got on my computer.  

I would check into performing notes and maybe even buying them within a solo-401k.From what I can tell once you are past the accumulation phase of investing this one of the best strategies for exiting the rental game and doing pure investments backed by real estate.Jeff V

Commit to immediate implementation by changing the way you define "failing" in your mind:Sending out mailing campaigns to sellers and not getting any deals yet is a success.Calling 20 FSBO calls everyday and not getting any deals yet is a success.It's a success because you are in motion and will eventually get to your destination purely by tweaking and staying consistent.Staying stuck in analysis paralysis forever is failing.