As a landlord you can't act as a charity, you have your own financial obligations to your lender, your investors, your reserve funds, your other tenants, your family, your goals for growing the business, your own health issues, etc. 

But I'm still here, I saved enough of what I had worked to build, and I've got goals I'm working on taking down.

There’s a million ways to get to your goal.

I bought my first house in February 2017 for $185k with the goal of buying at every duty station during my career.

If I expect a 75% LTV, then, I target 70% of ARV as my All-in Cost goal.  

In my new member intro I went into my backstory and goals a little bit so I wont waste time on that. 

You'll probably never get the current rent that way, but my main goal would be to get this deadbeat out asap. 

But I’m willing to wager that with the same amount of effort and cash, you will be able to leverage the experience of professionals, to build something of your own that perfectly fits your financial goals, limits risk to you and your family, and is repeatable if you somehow lost it all just because you chose the “hard” route.

So much info it is a little overwhelming but I am listening to podcasts daily plus trying to read more blogs and forums.My short term goals are as follows for now until I exceed them.I will buy my first investment property before the end of 2018.In 3 years I will be making 5k in passive income.In 5 years I will be making 10k in passive income.Ideally I would like to find some local people I could help and learn from.

The goal would be to hire on 1-3 trusted friends in that area to manage my first property.