A common theme I have heard is that many investors say they had wished they had gone bigger sooner.

@Cody NeumannThank you, Please do you think my timeline is too long and I should do it sooner?

Biggest problem of not getting rid of them is she will leave sooner rather than later, yes?

@Clint G. the sooner the better if you're going to use them.

I would rather invest sooner than later and begin creating passive income, but I am having a hard time finding a good property within my budget that can cash flow effectively.

You might want to call a few sooner to gauge terms for your underwriting.

I just worry that if I go this route since I am new, it may be hard to find a good PM that can work with me to help get the property rented out quickly vs. a turnkey provider already has that system in place and can potentially get the property rented out sooner. 3. once I buy my first property, how long do I have to wait before I can get a new loan for my next property? 

I felt guilty for not speaking up sooner, I made the mistake of trusting them to do the right thing and not setting boundaries with them.

I had planned originally to use all our own cash to fund the projects, but since I want to scale and reach our FIRE goals sooner rather than later, opting to go with private money lenders so that $100k can pay for 3-4 down payments on projects as well as have less invested in case it goes south somehow and I need to sell/get out.

Sooner the better too because costs will go up the longer you wait.