Their work was better and because they no longer had me as the bottle neck it was done much faster.

I would start looking there as prices are way lower and you can get started faster.

This is done via the Healthcare Flywheel, this is initially turned by passion which results in principles being developed, and finally results, which fuels more passion, and so on; success creates success.

I suggest finding numerous SFH and  investment properties (out of state) and calculating your ROI, find out if its really worth your wild to sink 20k in a property that might cashflow 200/month, find which area might appreciate faster..and execute!

Whatever the date, it means that you'll just have to work smarter, harder, and faster. 

They will often close considerably faster than conventional loans and will consider loans and borrowers that conventional lenders will not - such as rehabbing loans.HMLs secure their loan with a lien on the property.

Honestly $23k is not a lot of capital to work with so if you're able to re-leverage that in another flip and allow it to grow faster in the next 2 years and created six figure gains then that's when you really want to reinvest into more passive income streams. 

I missed out a few things I could have bought last year that have gone up since, I'm sure that's fueling me here to pull the trigger. 

More expensive than traditional loans but much more flexible and usually considerably faster in closing.It is not clear to me how many deals (fix and flips?)

The first depiction was not so much about mortgage pay down but instead using the benefit of leveraging the full refinance to gain substantial business capital to grow a lot faster.