While this is a great and highly motivating goal, most people are either clueless or incorrect in their belief as to what is required to obtain this “lifestyle”.Understanding of the “how to” get there is further obscured by the misleading, and often patently false “pathways” sold by real estate educational MARKETING companies as workshops, upsold to association memberships, upsold to mentorships.

There are so many strategies you can deploy depending on your goals going forward. 

Verifying last 2 years of rental history very important!

They try to hit that goal and have been successful at that, he told me.

There are also other strategies that can work better currently, depending on what your goals are. 

Each team would propose a new ideas and new creative financing to help both sides reach their goal.

Their goal is to eliminated group homes, half way houses etc, even STR, so check out the local zoning as well. 

Any goals or resolutions anyone wants to share? 

Given your previous career, your goals, and wanting to diversify your investments, I'm wondering if you might find value in the PassivePockets community, it's a community with private forum dedicated to passive investing in syndications.

Once you've identified what's important and what ratios to look for to evaluate a property, all future deals should be weighted against those "good" ratios/numbers - and periodically adjust to suit your goals.