He said that he currently works with investors so I’d like to continue doing my taxes with him.

As to my WHY, well that is pretty simple... make enough money passively to allow me to support my family, continue doing the things we like and build a legacy for the future. 

I think the housing market will continue to thrive.

Should I continue to live in apartments until I can afford the down payment on my own or should I take out a loan for the 20% down payment and begin house-hacking?

As far as my goals are concerned, I have a few thoughts in mind: 1) I would like to get in touch with a few wholesalers in the area so that I can more quickly and efficiently acquire properties to continue my flipping business,2) I would like to acquire multi family residences as investments to hold and rent,3) I would like to learn more about financing options or best avenues to obtain capital as I do not have a large amount of cash sitting to be used for my business,4) I am interested in syndication deals,5) I would like to become more involved with the local real estate groups,6) Any advice of best ways to use BiggerPockets is always appreciated.Looking forward to hearing your responses and chatting.

If so why, and how should I go about continuing to expand my real estate portfolio.

This is what bigger Pockets is for!!!!
I started building my own absentee list method about three years ago.. I started using local tax assessors in NC. I have had a contact rate of 16%. For example out of 1,000 dire...

Hi, I am buying a new rental property out of state and will be relying heavily on a property management to run daily operations for me.There are tenants already in the property and a property manager in place that the seller is currently using.Should I just continue with the same management company (considering the tenants are familiar with them) or use my agent as the new property manager (since he knows the property well and I have worked with him closely for a month now) or look for a completely fresh property management .Can someone please help me understand what’s the best thing to go with??

Continue to do the right thing.

For the past couple decades everything that has worked continues to work well.However.This resilience to change is what bankrupted Toys R Us.