I recently bought a property am living in it and after a year plan on classifying it as a rental.

I returned from a deployment in 2019 and bought my first home with my VA loan with 0% down in 2020 and then a few years later (2022) I had alot of equity in my home so I got a HELOC of $30K and used it to buy first property.

My goal is to close five more deals by the end of the year.

Here’s an interesting technique taught to me 40+ years ago by Jimmy Napier.  

Obviously, based on my relationship with the company, I'm not unbiased, but most people here on BiggerPockets know that I value my reputation above all, and when I agreed to join FTF as an advisor a couple years ago, it was because I was very impressed not only with their business model and underwriting guidelines, but with the CEO (Matt Rodak) and the rest of the management team.I have no requirement to invest my own money on the FTF platform; I do that simply because I like the platform, like the deals that are being funded and find the returns to be nearly as good as the private lending I do, but without all the overhead. 

Also seen many of the duplex units with old tenants at for example $1800-2000 where you update it a little and bump it a whole 20-30%+.

I had a debt collector harassing me years ago.

I have been brokering private money and commercial mortgage loans for 10+ years.

Over the years, I've built strong systems to keep projects on time and within budget.

Part of the property (1/4) was owned by a relative, *I own the rest) that died ten years ago in Pennsylvania.