Any other advice you might have for building out my network is perfect too.

Also as I mentioned earlier you need to ensure your location more or less matches what I mentioned above.

If you have clear answers to these questions, then find properties that match your answers, and move forward on the best one.

Instead of spending hours, days, weeks, and months trying to find the "perfect market" (which doesn't exist), use that time to vet, meet, and call operators. 

Most of our amortizations are between 15-25 years based on the age of the property and condition and we'll usually match the loan term to the amortization up to 20 years.

Well, it could increase it because you're collecting more rent, it could decrease it because you have more expenses and/or more paper loss (i.e. depreciation), or it could all come out in a wash if your increases in rent approximately match your new deductions.Let's say for 2020 you have $100,000 in profits that would be taxed at whatever your tax rate is. 

I just closed on my first rei yesterday. Originally I was gonna have a mortgage up front but decided to barrow money from a family member to purchase the property with the plans to fix it up some and cash out refi in ...

On the other side of the spectrum, what if the seller says the house is in "perfect shape" and is "rent ready" and then you go and it's actually a hoarder situation and needs a clean out of the house and yard on top of your rehab prices.

The only meetups I saw posted on here didn't seem to match what I was looking for.

I'm a big youtube fan lol but it also happens to be a perfect tool for learning construction.