I have ran several single-family homes and found them to be quite ideal in terms of return using the calculators here.My first question is;How do you manage to work a deal with an out-of-state house?

Plenty of options depending on your goals.It's not quite the Sprint, since we're sticking to 25% dp rather than 50%, but it's definitely faster than Bulk, and you typically end up with a nice little portfolio of free and clear props in 10 years, give or take.

@Deepak Kumar I am in Oak Park regularity, and have quite a few friends who are purchasing in the Austin neighborhood.

On the east side it varies quite a bit.

Trying to work out a strategy to quit my day gig and last well until pension.

Rentals are the basis to quit the day job how can you do that at negative cash flow.Paying off the mortgage is a bad idea when in the early days of building a portfolio. 

Although it was built in 1958, the bones on this Quad were solid and the risk of any major capex was quite low (knock on wood).  

It will just make my already-negative cash flow worse, but when I bought the property I had quite a few other reasons and motivations for doing so and I was very clear on the negative cash-flow situation.

We have quite a few together or in our LLCs if commercial property, but banks weren't involved and no conventional debt on them. 

Quite helpful.