Seems like a low risk strategy for you to start taking action on your dreams, which is the crucial ingredient towards reaching FI. 

If so, what were the key ingredients or tactics you used to make this work?

But that doesn't mean you know the right ingredients or can assemble it without disaster.

I think the freedom of not paying your primary mortgage would be a huge stress relief and allow you to deploy cash quicker in the future and feel safer taking risks when you know your own living situation is covered.On the rental side, I know the magic ingredient in real estate is time and the sooner you get properties, the sooner they appreciate and are paid off by tenants and 5+ rentals 20-30 years from now would definitely be worth more than the one primary.Would love anyone's thoughts on how you would go about this situation!

It is one of the ingredients you need to take seriously no matter what kind of marketing you do!

Baking a CakeYou can read up on what a cake is, what goes in a cake and go stock up on a bunch of ingredients.  

Failure is the required ingredient.

To echo all of the above tips, the key ingredients to all of this is consistency. 

It would be more the owner of a restaurant hires a good chef, and then tells the chef what to cook and what ingredients to use.

CredibilityIf you have these 3 ingredients, you WILL get a conversion—guaranteed.Without getting too deep into this… “personality” is the biggest one.