I have a meetup group in Alexandria and you're more than welcome to attend.

If I were your tenant you would have a fight on your hands and possibly a vacant unit out of spite.There is no reason you should not be able to find a good used one on Craig's list a couple of years old for half the price or less of new. 

We attended an OZ Conference in Portland, Oregon where they already have a few projects up a running and have talked with a few contacts about setting up a fund.If you are genuinely interested I would love to connect you with the owner/organizer of the conference.

I would love to attend and meet some experienced REIs!

It may be useful for you to attend if you are looking at sheriff sale.

Being new to this, what are some known strategies that people use to purchase a second, third, fourth property quickly [within a couple of years] opposed to waiting for that single property to bring in enough income to afford the next purchase?

I think with less conservative estimates it would be closer to 1%.I would love to attend!

I'm not sure we disagree much here, other than maybe making a couple of points:1.

Based on current research, we plan to go into BRRRR investing starting with SFH with our first couple of deals and then to small MFH and large MFH down the road.

Everyone from the successful plumber to the young, professional couples just starting out live here.