Hi @kennedy williams - Sometimes its better to be a "big fish is a small pond" than the other way around.

Short term goals:- more podcasts, more reading BP, more learning- settle on buy side/sell side domain names, set up forms to collect info- find and attend local REI / BP meetings- identify resources: title agent, partner realtor- decide on marketing strategies and implementIf I am not fishing for opportunities full bore in two weeks, I'll be disappointed.

Atlanta has been nuts.

Even with just a 250K nut, and assuming a 25% equity in each property, you need to have $1M worth of property, which is 20 houses at 50K per,  10 houses at 100K per. 

I am fishing out information in case I ever really really need a laundry room in the future.

I've found that the real passive income comes from commercial properties - apartment buildings, retail mall, office buildings, mobile home parks, assisted living facility, etc.Dedicated to your financial success, Trace TrajanoWhile I agree that commercial is where the big fish swim and eat, and the profits have several more zeros behind them, this sounds more like a plug than anything.Beginning investors don't usually jump in to large commercial deals and have success at them.

That's going to generate much more cash flow than when you're paying a monthly nut for the debt.

Its going to take 20 good real units to cover a $2000 monthly nut.

Tough nut to crack.

Some people have said you get a lot of nut jobs on Craigslist but I guess you can get just as many from the newspaper.