A few years down the road if I move out with both units rented it cash flows (also using 5% vacancy, 5% repairs, 5% CAPEX) at least $200 per month.  

He will certainly thank you for it down the road.

You find properties of the type you like and then start a conversation with the broker in hopes that down road they will bring you good deals.  

I risk having to dump money into it/braking down on the side of the road.

But to undersand how to do this you need to be down the road a few years and have expenses in excess of some amount as a percent of your income.  

You put it in the ground and let grow – and you have no idea what’s happening beneath.Have faith.Proverbs 14:23 says “In all labor there is profit, But talk of the lips leads only to poverty.”Ashley and I door-knocked and road foreclosures in two counties for two years solid before we found our first house deal.After that first deal, things just took off.

I am 59 years old and I was born in Dallas Texas.i used to go up Preston Road to our place in Gunter.  

How do I get around these road blocks and talk to somone who makes deals for bank owned properties.  

Roads.

The farther from a standard way of doing things you get, the more likely lawyers and buyers will be confused and the more likely things will hit bumps in the road (paraphrasing one of Bill G's recent posts).