Thus, I expect cash flow and equity to grow faster than inflation.

I've been studying REI in one way or another since '05 - ready to actually apply the knowledge now and grow my business.In the last couple of years, I've also come to the realization with my marriage, the birth of one kid, and another soon on the way, that this whole "life" experience will end someday and I'd like to enjoy it as much as possible with my growing family.

Each professional relation is much enough helpful to grow in higher level and after all it create a very positive mental stand.

What you need is an area that is growing, that has a stable economic base and that has sufficient inventory for what you want to do.

What Karen Mikolainis said - if you put it all down into a spreadsheet, I think you may find that renting where you NEED to live and investing where you WANT to may make the best sense - and will more than cover up the need to pay for the services of a good property manager and others - if you follow the deals to where the money is.Also, being remote will free you from being emotionally and time-wise consumed in management of your property/ies.I second that.

Definitely looking forward to watching you grow as an investor!

I need to learn more about RE to grow an investment portfolio of rentals.Any advise?

I will be pursuing my licence over the next few months while trying to grow my business.

It is a VERY time consuming process and next time around, I will definetly just purchase a list but for thr first go at it, I wanted to try on my own just to understand how it's done. 

Anyway, I want to let you know that there is another avenue of investment that has the potential to grow your portfolio.