Owner occuppied option provides you an advantage that I do not have.Good luckHonest question:  How would you suggest someone build a large portfolio (say, $500k/month of rent roll. 

He's a seasoned investor with a nice portfolio, an experienced rehabber who GCs all his own rehabs, and he's great at digging in on analytics.

My goal is to build a real estate/investment portfolio (end goal of multifamily) while working as a firefighter over the next 20 years to have passive income once I retire from the fire industry. 

Welcome to the forums, and congrats on deciding you want to jump into the RE investing game!

Knowing how to draw the value of a subject property is one of the most crucial parts of the game.

After underwriting a few RE deals, I decided I needed to get into the RE game.

From my perspective, in terms of building an REI portfolio, the best bet is to spread your capital over a couple solid cash flow properties and let your tenants pay down your loans over time.

I just worry about revealing my poker hand before the game has started...

I'm relatively new to the real estate investment game as I only started out with rentals two years ago and I'm just going about looking for flips now, so any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance.

However being new to this game I just wanted some feedback or maybe even some reinforcement that I'm making the right decision.