Is anyone in the area currently combining FIRE techniques (accelerated saving, index fund investing, etc.) with RE investing simultaneously?

If you try to combine a refi followed closely by a sale and 1031 the IRS have many times interpreted that as a way of taking profit out of the 1031. 

I'd suggest you form your own opinions of course :)  1) Kelowna: Has a strong rental market, but It may be tough to find strong cash flow on a property with only one suite.  2) Kelowna: The summer Short term rental combined with Off season student rental combination is making folks big cash flow right now, but it is growing more competitive.  3) BC: I second the comment made by @Brianne H.4) Vernon:  If you spend the time to look you can find deals here  5) Have good Math

Is it possible to combine the FHA 203k and the BRRRR strategy?

Monthly rental incomes are almost double the PITI combined...

Then work all avenues to secure the financing, in all combinations.

You may look into doing a combination of a house hack/ live in flip/ live in brrrr to really crank up the force multiplier on those combined strategies.

They offer a combined undergrad/masters program for real estate.

The locations all have median home values in the bottom 50% for all three states combined and the population threshold was set at 25k or more to eliminated nano-sized markets. 

I used to read 100 books a year when I was younger and I got more out of that then all of my years in conventional schooling combined.