However, I still couldn't seem to save more than a few hundred bucks at any time, so I went to go see an expert.

The crime rate is high, and many people who are looking at spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house just aren't really looking at downtown Goldsboro, even if they enjoy visiting for Center Street Jam or a nice night of dinner and drinking at Torero's. 

A couple hundred a month cashflow is just not comparable in many cases.  

My company has flipped hundreds of homes and structured owner financing, subject to financing as well as managing several rentals so I’m not completely new to the arena.

I just spoke to my brother looking for a rental out in CA and he is up against hundreds of other applicants for each application he fills out!

Every guest "owned" hundreds or thousands of units and that's what I thought success had to look like.

How much really depends but if you want to invest enough money to actually live comfortably off of, you'll need hundreds of thousands at least. 

If you search BP for SEC 8 you will find hundreds of thousands of posts.

Take a toilet replacement, couple hundred bucks whether its a $50k property or a $2 million property.

Even with all this my property was in a B class neighborhood and is cash flowing a few hundred bucks a month.