Then, try and make it out to a local BP Meetup and ask away - your goal is achievable - there are just 5,000 different ways to get their in real estate and if you can avoid some of the common mistakes you will get there much faster!

There appears to be some good things happening that way though and some big developments being considered (Chatham Park bankrolled by Goodnight).

By fixing up properties I was able to recover from my buying errors much faster because I could raise rents.

That is the key, knowing your market.The better you know your market the faster and more accurately you can evaluate deals.

The more you do, the more you make & the faster you learn.

I have read that Grand Rapids is a good place to look there as jobs are increasing faster than the population.

Or you can pay $3 more and its a few days faster.

I realized that the faster, more realistic way to scale is to get into small apartments (small to me is between 10 - 30 units), rather than buy 15 more duplexes :)   I'm driving for dollars, and have had some success in spotting FSBO signs.  

I'm torn on just riding it out on the heloc at this point  and building equity/flow faster vs. paying the higher costs for a refi (and freeing up the HELOC to look for my next door. 

We knew the faster the foundation was built well, the more we could utilize exponential growth.