BUT WAIT, there's more:  Then when I hit submit, I got a message "your payment method has been removed successfully. 

The overall ideas got me fired up, now I am trying to adapt to 2025 and seeing what's out there to make the job manageable. 

Then there's always the BRRRR method, if your confident you can sell/rent for a profit and leave little to no money in the house (this way you could pay off a HELOC, 401k loan or similar).

There is also a New program that just dropped the down payments for 2-4 unit investment property purchases to a 15% Down Payment making it easier to afford for inventors now.I am also hearing about a lot of "subject to" deals people using Pace Morby's method or cruising on Crex to find deals.  

I do not post looking to offend; I am genuinely interested in finding a way to join the real estate business, though I am too low on funds for most other methods.

The most accurate or cleanest method is one bank account per LLC, but that is tough if you are solo with 20 properties and do not have a full back office function for each.

I’m looking to connect with experienced investors, especially those who’ve succeeded with buy-and-hold, Maybe even Section 8, or creative finance methods. 

After realizing from others I’ve talked to that, like you said, there’s really no hard-and-fast method of calculating, I did do that.

You are using my absolute favorite method to get started- a VA mulifamiliy house hack is like jumping on an investing hyper speed train.

I feel like I'd like to start looking at more deals in different markets, as I'd like to make a purchase before the end of the year, but I need to feel confident about the following: (a) understand what returns I should be shooting for(b) have a fast 10-min evaluation system to make initial, high-level assessments of the deals(c) have a more in-depth evaluation method if it passes the sniff test.