However, if your goal is to acquire lots of properties so you can live off the cash flow, you'll need cheaper homes to accumulate faster. 

Hello my fellow BP Money Masters, this is just a post about feelings. Im currently in the debt pay down phase and so anxious to get into the game. I am saving and following the guidelines set in many of the books (Set...

You can most likely scale a lot faster and I would much rather fix everything up front to avoid maintenance and then capture that built equity with the refinance then rinse and repeat

Investing is buying an income producing asset hoping it grows faster than inflation (value and cashflow), while leveraging on others to help pay the loan/s (tenants). 

Real estate is local, but as far as I can see..Supply is low, and new demand is not being met.Interest rates are already low and going down.Lending is tightening based on some of the concerns you pointed out.Prices didn’t drop because supply fell as fast or faster than demand during the lockdowns.

The loan amount is a big deal ($50K loan at 10% interest is not worth it without some points, $1,000,000 loan at 10% is a good amount of money).So to answer your question, I would expect 1-4 depending on loan size and somewhere between 8-12% if you aren't doing something out of the ordinary.That being said, I don't know your backstory and experience so that will be a huge factor (as well as your personal bank roll).

Is that purely to turn your money over faster, or some other reason (like tenancy)?

There are products that seem to help with the septic tank breakOmg down material faster. 

My goal with cash flow is to pay my primary down faster, or if times get tight, have more cash flow on hand. 3.

You're already on the right path and setting up your systems before you dive in is going to make your life a lot easier and a lot more likely that you'll get a deal faster.