Actually, for me, the holy grail of leverage would be a VA loan (I'm a veteran) but, again, I'd have to change my address, which my wife might not appreciate :DThat seems to leave some flavor of BRRRR as an option to generate capital for acquisitions beyond property #1.TL;DR I have cash on hand, but I'm too old and chicken to dump it all on multiple properties and hope for the best. 

Careful listening to BP's dogmatic flavor of love for house hacking--it's a **** "investment" more often than not. 

Hi Katie,Vanilla is the most popular flavor for a reason.

Panama was the flavor a while back. 

The details of "How-2" vary as much as flavors of ice cream, but the path is universal: To be a 2%'er, you have to do what the 98% won't. 

These marketing techniques included bright attractive ads, giveaways at concerts and festivals, flavors, and even going so far as giving presentations...in high schools.

In my market, I see a different flavor of the same problem.

Strong rent demand, reasonable prices, and solid long-term fundamentals.Each one has its own flavor, but those are the markets I see investors come back to again and again.

In Maryvale (Phoenix, next door) ( basically the other end of the spectrum,) you'd look at the basics, roof, AC, kitchen, bathroom, floors, door knobs (hardware), switches, lights and you'd change it from antique Mexican flavor to newer antique Mexican flavor, and profit about $60,000 in shorter time.

Again, these questions have a bit of turnkey flavor to them, but they work very well when interviewing management companies.