Read real estate articles in WSJ, NY Times, various real estate journals and magazines, real estate websites3.

This would take us about 30 months5) Other ideas/ suggestions.Im all ears.Thanks for your time everyone!

With Denver facing an affordable housing crisis, this change falls under the category of "Duh, about time." 

On the one hand, I realize I just need to let time do it's magic and enjoy appreciation and debt paydown, but I'm looking for ways to continually grow my portfolio by either acquiring more properties or finding ways to generate more income which will be used to purchase more properties.I tried using OPM but that doesn't work for me for several reasons - if I go down a loan route I can't pay it back because of my LTV cap and partnering for equity requires a lot of work in bulding trust and even then it's for a very small share of equity which is insignificant.

I would be around $150,000 to get that done last time I checked!

Full time flight nurse and pay/schedule is allowing me to dabble in the world of real estate.  

Hope everyone is doing well and I thank you if you took the time to read this!

And at the same time as you mention the cost is close to the same as Boston and you don't make as much $ as a developer. 

These are all things you need to do some homework on and figure out.In terms of BRR and flipping.Flipping makes you more money now.But BRR gives you the opportunity to invest, recoup your investment, have heavy depreciation tax write offs & build a portfolio which PAYS YOU IN YOUR SLEEP.You only have so much time to work, but the need for housing will consistently increase as our population is outpacing or supply of housing year after year.

Thank you for your time in advance.