i plan on going to all the MAREI monthly meetings, last month was great

If you are planning on hiring a property manager (or if you think you will ever have one for the property, even if you don't have one now), they usually will charge around 1 months of rent for just placing a tenant.Even though they are a condo and townhome, that is a tiny amount of cash flow each month.

RE is a long game - you need to think 10 years time.3) Buying a cash flow negative property is okay if you only plan on owning one or two properties.

They have exactly the same words in them and are generally half the price (or less).  

They aren't super pretty (ARMs with rates well north of 4%... still way lower than HML), and obviously your plan can/should be to refinance into fannie/freddie money the second you're in a position to check the necessary boxes. 

They did not have good rental records for the 900 apparently tenant pays half and government pays half.

I am actually planning to fly out to JAX next month.

I had a plan of doing it myself but it will take a lot of time.

My plan is to buy foreclosures for a low (but modest) price, flip it or make some nice reparations, and sell it for as much profit as I can.

My wife and I were having a conversation recently, the subject of retirement has come up a lot lately, and I was telling her that outside of our 401K money, I was concerned about not being able to push the pace as hard as I can now at work and it affecting how much money I earn so I was saying that we need another plan.