My wife and I talk all the time about what we would do different had we jumped into real estate prior to purchasing a primary residence and we come back to house hacking pretty much every time as a way we could have accelerated our wealth faster (especially as we were living like college students in our first few years in Charlotte anyway).People have offered very good book recommendations and I would recommend delving into FI (financial independence) if you haven’t yet.

I like seller financing bc I get to jump ahead and get a deal faster than doing a loan thru a lender or bank.

That may help you get into one faster.

Prefer to buy, since this takes out competition and gets me faster to price control.; 2. 

I was thinking I can find buyers a lot faster than finding properties.

Faster to market, the faster you get your money.

I know there is Faster House buyers club that does a meetup in St.

You will need that much faster than you expect once you start marketing... and go from herehope that helps ;)

When the tenant pays your mortgage, and you only have to come up with 20% of the money in cash, you can recover your cash much faster. 

If everything is in good order they will be receiving their money back and the better the condition the faster they will get it back since you won't have to get any bids.