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. 

Instead of paying $5,000 a month for a mortgage (plus taxes, insurance, and maintenance) consider renting for $3,000 a month and save the other $2,000 a month to apply towards real estate investing.There are many great areas to invest in, and they don't have to be large cities like Cleveland.

Even an agent won't typically do these unless you hire them to place a tenant.You seem intent on being cheap, thinking you have to be to save money. 

I live in CO and my mountain property has water under it but is about 50k to drill, since we plan to rent it we are putting forth the money but also doing a rainwater collection system for the garden (in CO we can only collect up to 110gal)

I’ve watched multiple episodes on YouTube and I’m excited to join and learn about real estate, retirement and money management. 

How far would they have to go to save a significant enough amount to make the work worth it?

The properties I am looking at are more than affordable for my income and would still allow me to save between 30-40% of my monthly income. 

"investors", "Investment", "Cash Only" "Hard Money", "Handyman", Handy Man", "Fixer Upper", "Rehab", "TLC"

I wonder why the government isn't encouraging more people to become developers compared to the money they are putting into VCsWhat would be a good step by step approach to becoming a developer?

What kind of money do you have invested in that mirror house?