The more people that can picture themselves renting this house, the faster your vacancy will be filled. 

Sounds like it is usually faster to follow the advice of sound investors.

More reinvestment means faster growth.

I love both methods but am leaning more towards the first one simply because of the ability to scale faster and having aligned interest with the investor partners.

These action steps can be tied to weekly goals.To help setting your quarterly goals, you should really be setting 7 to 10 annual goals.If you do this and follow them daily, you can get where you want to be in life much faster.

Faster forward to 2010 I obtained my real estate license and started investing again, but this time buying properties outright.. 

Faster forward to 2010 I obtained my real estate license and started investing again, but this time buying properties outright..

Enabling you to buy more real estate at a faster pace.Additionally, if at the same time you are increasing your income from you full time job, your savings will further increase.

You can scale way faster by using qualified GC's to get it done.

But most of the time flippers use some other type of loans because all of those "government" types of loans require 30 days to close and we normally need to close faster as investors.