Honestly it is a pretty thankless job with tight margins which is why it is hard to find good ones.

I‘m still making decent cashflow from my job, but I’m considering buying a condo/townhouse for myself first to lower my monthly living expenses (I could move just outside the city for ~$600 less per month).

I am looking for a job or internship of some sort and don't really know what positions are out there that will help me learn.

No just to let you know my end goal is probably only 10 properties enough to live off of and quit my day job.

This is also likely to be at a time when the economy is poor and your own day job may be in peril.

I've been reading as much as possible about REI and decided I wanted to go with a long term rental strategy in an effort to leave my job as a police officer in six years. 

Once I finished my enlistment I got an amazing job as an Operating Engineer (crane operator) in NYC and met my beautiful wife.

I started with 1 year OTR with my wife as a passenger before shifting into local jobs.

@Shaun CallowayI wouldn't sweat it too much.I can understand the difficult job these admins have as there are over 1M members and thousands of posts per day.

If they can't do the job they signed up for, then you terminate and find someone else.