Does anyone have advice for someone in their 50's starting this journey on how to implement strategies that can have a quicker payoff or can help fund the retirement years? 

We still found ourselves learning and implementing plenty from the course into our day-to-day operations, training materials, and most tangibly, an offering memorandum of our own.)I’ve inserted the link for the first draft of our “Midas Touch BRRRR 20” offering memorandum here.

I also feel it's important to mention that I'll be using that HELOC loan and implementing the BRRRR strategy, likely on a small multifamily home/ very small apartment complex( less than 10 units).

Treasury must first propose a structure for implementing the new rule, after which the agency will issue a notice of proposed rule-making and will request public comments on the proposal.

What type of real estate investing strategy will I be implementing (fix and flips, buy and holds, subject 2s, etc...) ?

You can't implement a plan to drive up the value of VTSAX, but we can (and do) force value add on real estate all the time.That said, VTSAX has advantages that can't be denied.

So really, being "in the trenches" of PM requires becoming an expert negotiator, being calm as a cucumber when everything is going bonkers all around you, LEADING, reading people, creating, implementing and defending systems, knowing the red-flags and picking them out early especially when well hidden.  

Has anyone implemented this strategy in BP?

Let me know if you need other options for implementing the BRRRR strategy, I'm happy to assist.

I serve on the local Town Council and we just re-drew an existing TIF and implemented another brand new TIF in hopes of attracting positive commercial and residential growth.