I am still working full time as an electrician but ultimately looking for that financial freedom we all are after.

Hello everyone,Haven't posted much in a while, but was thinking about the ups and downs I've personally experienced in REI and how I stayed motivated when financial freedom seemed so far away in the beginning.I remember my first BRRRR...I spent every dollar in the bank (I was also working a 1099 job to cover personal bills after getting laid off from a W2 job).

I’m an avid fly fisherman and want to get into rental properties for financial freedom. 

Here's a guide that describes what good cash flow looks like and how to analyze a property.https://www.biggerpockets.com/...Read about the power of leverage.

I also understand the power of commercial / large multi family investments, considering my family's multi-family home is under an LLC, but I also see how much work it can be.All in all, it would be nice to hear from anyone in the BiggerPockets community, specifically- what everyone recommends as the best way to get started in NJ, what makes sense for my situation, and what areas do you see the most cooling / opportunities in.

Right now there is so much opportunity, don't handicap your buying power 

The simple but not perfect math is that every 1% increase in interest rates translates to a 10% decrease in buying power.

I will increase my networking and knowledge power.

Solar loans are 30-50k and I believe that amount of money can be used to upgrade the homes bathrooms, kitchen or square footage instead of saving a few hundred dollars on power bill. 

The old gravity furnaces on the other hand, I don't hate (except fo the asbestos tape around the duct work and it's not usually a problem if you leave it alone)-- They are very inefficient (60%) but there is nothing at all to break, they work even in a power outage, and they put out serious heat.