I’m not sure of your current financial situation, but a Park Slope home will certainly store wealth safely for generations, it just won’t work efficiently as a rental.

I am attempting to lay out my financial path to semi-retirement (i.e. leaving my current w2 for something less time consuming/more enjoyable) within 10 years or less.I can identify my family's spending now and what I project after semi-retirement, which I have done for the most part BUT that part of working backward and laying out milestones to achieve x number of properties or cash flow or equity, all the while maintaining a proper amount of contribution in my workplace retirement plan and other tax adv/def approaches.I imagine i'd need a tax resource and a financial advisory resource, both of whom are knowledgeable on the notion of 1) real estate and 2) retirement planning before traditional age.

I am here to learn so I can be more efficient in my current job and to put it in practice in my own country. 

Knowing this up front, helps a great deal, to help you be efficient in your hunt for property.

Hello BPI have a question regarding the best way to pool funds from multiple investors.I already own a moderate-sized portfolio and now I have multiple friends interested in investing with me in similar deals.We are all accredited investors and have known each other many years.They are interested in an equity position along with me.My question to everyone is:What is the best way to efficiently pool our funds so we can invest?

It is much less efficient as far as scaling expenses (i.e. property taxes, insurance, etc.) 

For anyone that's interest I've been going through the city's map of properties and looking for places where the owner's address is different.I know there's more efficient ways to do this, however, I've got it down such that it takes an hour a week and I feel like I'm doing something.

Steel is a more efficient build, less theft, fast (though not much faster even panelized), straight and solid, substantially less waste, and things are well planned for mechanicals.

I’m considering a capital improvement on my five unit building which would primarily yield on the expense side Specifically I am considering converting my oil steam boiler and hot water heater for the entire house to individually metered Hi efficiency gas and on-demand water heater’sThis would mean that each unit would be responsible for its own heat and I would save on oil as Well as potentially the water bill with individual meters for each unitWhat do you consider an acceptable return on investment for such an improvement?

Everything from property managers, LLC protection, lawn/snow care, rent collection - and anything to be efficient.