It lines up with Tony Robbins teaching too.

There is no shortage of pseudo investors who've done a couple of deals, lost money on both and are now teaching others how to be successful investors.

Hi RJ,If you are going to pay these people to learn pretty much ZERO job skills, realize thatthey all teach pretty much the same  useless stuff as it relates to working.... one set of useless knowledge they make you pay for vs another set of useless knowledge they make you pay for. 

I recently learned that there’s a program that teaches you how to use government run programs that pay well for rentals for people with disabilities.Before I spent $750.00 for a program to find out its fluff, or a scam, does anyone know anything about these programs?

It will teach you the basics and is a great start to buy and hold, because you can use a low down owner occupied loan instead of the 20% or 25% down non-owner occupied investor loans.

If you get solid contractors who can do repairs, and teach the tenants to send you pictures and video when things are wrong so that you don’t have to make a trip to check, and then this could still be pretty hands off for you despite self managing it.Plus if you increase the rent by a couple hundred dollars a month across the four units, then now you will be looking at around $700 a month in cash flow, which is great.Plus your vacancy allowance might be a little on the high end, but even if not the deal should still make sense.The only potential red flags are if this area is difficult for filling vacancies.

This 10%, I wanna teach you a little secret, but please don't tell anybody.... when you cash flow 10% and you gain an adittional 10% of managing your property it equals to a looming "20%"...In paragraph 3 you wrote, taking in a friend as a business partner is a bad decision, I actually wanted to take only enemies  as partners, but I asked my "advisors" and they nixed it... 

One of the reasons I teach construction and believe in it so strongly, it is the single greatest factor that will destroy a project.

Ultimately to get us to come to a 3day workshop that teaches a "franchise like model" system that sounds really educational.

I teach classes to new investors, but would be happy to work with you gratis, your story is wonderful!