lol) All that to say that the more you you can define and articulate your goals, the better chance you will achieve them (learned that from the book Think and Grow Rich) and it really did help.

@Thomas Wood  It may be easier to try to work within the lending guidelines and programs that exist to accomplish what you're trying to achieve. 

pid=1632Houston Real Estate Highlights in June Single-family home sales fell shy of last June’s record-setting levels, declining 3.4 percent year-over-year, with 8,097 units sold, marking the first down sales month of 2019;On a year-to-date basis, single-family home sales are 1.4 percent ahead of 2018’s record pace;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes went from 48 to 49 days;Total property sales fell 5.1 percent, with 9,461 units sold;Total dollar volume slid 3.1 percent to slightly more than $2.9 billion;The single-family home median price rose 2.9 percent to $252,000, achieving an all-time high;The single-family home average price was up 2.0 percent to $321,973 – a record high for a June;Single-family homes months of inventory reached a 4.4-months supply, up from 4.1 months last June and the most plentiful level since before Hurricane Harvey tore through the region in August 2017.

Houston Real Estate Highlights in June Single-family home sales fell shy of last June’s record-setting levels, declining 3.4 percent year-over-year, with 8,097 units sold, marking the first down sales month of 2019;On a year-to-date basis, single-family home sales are 1.4 percent ahead of 2018’s record pace;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes went from 48 to 49 days;Total property sales fell 5.1 percent, with 9,461 units sold;Total dollar volume slid 3.1 percent to slightly more than $2.9 billion;The single-family home median price rose 2.9 percent to $252,000, achieving an all-time high;The single-family home average price was up 2.0 percent to $321,973 – a record high for a June;Single-family homes months of inventory reached a 4.4-months supply, up from 4.1 months last June and the most plentiful level since before Hurricane Harvey tore through the region in August 2017.

Roddy,Regardless of the sarcastic tone of many people in this thread, you need to realize that those numbers are pretty difficult to achieve in this day and age.

My goal was to build a portfolio of 200+ SFRany advice if I can achieve it with buying 2-3 properties each month.Thanks

This provides optimal protection as you achieve separation of assets. 

I can lower both my interest rate and my monthly payments in order to achieve positive monthly cash flow.

That one year was crucial to my growth, I worked harder, my goals motivated me and I achieved exactly what I wanted, a way to have my money work for me.

Tell me your short term and long term real estate investment goals and how you plan to achieve them.