Ask other LPs where they have been burned and what they learned from it.  

Up until then I was cheerleading the earlier thought experiments about supporting lean/regular/fat income with ~$1000 / month per paid off SFH, thinking “I could bang that out in 5 years”.

You will burn yourself out feeding the beast each month.  

If it is built from scratch with a full fire box, then most types of wood can be burned.  

term=clayton+morrisI alteady played and burned.

Then in 2020 it turned out cashflow wasn’t guaranteed, the government could burn your cashflow to the ground and you could lose everything.

I would argue that they are young so they haven't been burned by bad landlords or even know how to take advantage of the system.

Maybe they've been burned by landlords in the past and are being very careful.You can legally reject them based on personality, facial tattoos, body odor, or other factors, but you better make sure you can prove that it wasn't based on any protected class like race, religion, familial status, etc.

I'm burning the boats on this one and making it an obsession.

The allure of fat cash flow (at least on paper) and the low barrier of entry (down payment) never stop attracting new investors.