How can I scale my portfolio faster?

Any ideas of how to expand faster?

A good project will net you money regardless of terms, but the GC portion can take you under faster than a tidal wave.

This requires an income that rises faster than inflation, or you will not have the additional dollars you will need to pay future inflated prices.What causes rents (and prices) to increase?

Securing the financing ahead of time makes the process go a lot smoother and faster.

We did it really fast, lake 3 months but I expect we can do it a lot faster, and taking Mexican earning tax in account, so the value can go higher.

Very true, same reason I hire out all the contracting work that I can as those pros are much better/faster at it then I could be!

Your tenants will pay down your mortgage and you can use some of the money from the rental to either help pay down your student loans faster or save to buy another property.

I'm planning to make additional payments to pay off the mortgage faster, and I'm unsure how to account for this in the ROI calculation.

When I pay down the loan faster than 30 years, the way I look at it is my principal payment is basically saving me interest expense.