If you do a live in flip, you can perhaps rent the house after 2 years and move to a bigger house. 3-5% down savings is EASILY achievable if you follow the rules in the book.

I do not need a pat on the back, but curious how people ever really achieve passive income.

Make sure they align with your goals and your business practices and can be a partner to help you grow to achieve your goals not just collect the rentHow many people work for your company ?

I want both to cash flow and gain appreciation via equity growth and adding value/optimizing operations to eventually cash out refi to eventually repeat and scale. 

With technology today and quality property management you are able to purchase investement properties that match your strategy to achieve your goals anywhere in the world.

how can I achieve that?

If you are achieving or exceeding market rate rents then why are repairs necessary?

A lot of investors see that 5-7 year time frame as the optimal window to move on from a property because it is often around the time that many capital expenditure items start needing to be replaced again which begins erasing built up cash flow. 

He talks about the domino effect and how achieving a little goal will lead to achieving your bigger goals.

What I'm getting at here, is if the pieces were locked into each other the right way (achieving a flat surface from one to the other) they should not move like their moving at the center of the floor like that.