I have my real estate salesperson license, but have only done deals for myself to save the commission.I have decided to dive in head first and focus on real estate. 

@Terri David you could possibly "hire" someone, for reduced rent, to look over the property and do showings, meet with contractors, etc... on a smaller building, but you'd still need someone to manage payments, marketing, tenant screening, etc.... it could save you some money on the management side, but you still need some type of management company, if you didnt want to do it yourself

For example, if you have $200k saved up, then if I could get into 10 - 100k properties (20% down on 100k is 20k x 10 = 200k). 

I am a relatively new investor that has gotten my feet wet by using my own savings to buy my first deal. 

My husband and I have always planned to use REI as a means for early(ish) retirement.

I have been doing a very slow crawl (while I clean up past financial mistakes & save cash for future successes) to get into the investment side, but have been working to gather some priceless experience along the way.We purchased our first home in 2005 and that became our very first rental in 2009!

I can pay for the downpayment via my savings, but the property appears to need a full rehab for both units. 

Financially I can retire today...

I could just put it all on a credit card and try to pay it off over the next few months with my personal savings, but I could also try to either borrow or add it on to the purchase price.

I do have a high risk tolerance due in part to being relatively young (30), having stable income (military) and setting my personal finance/retirement on autopilot with a course set for a comfortable retirement at 65.