@Richard Adjou Up here in the north we don't have a lot of time before hypothermia sets in, so I like to cut right to the chase.

I just created an off shoot topic to this thread and tried tagging @Sandra Holt who inspired such deep sharing, @Mike H. who so generously shared his process and allowed me to repost it, @Jonna Weber who has been contributing great systemization ideas and @Judi Drummond who has another great method to be the early bird and get that worm!

I have applied to a few credit cards in the past; Discover it and Chase Freedom but no success.

As far as I can read your circumstances, that does not seem to apply to your "facebook friend" (buyer bird dog) or your "connection guy" (mucha moula)?  

There tends to be lower quality tenants that rent multi-family compared to SFHs in the Midwest and a lot of out of town investors get themselves into big trouble chasing the high yields in bad areas.

Look them up.Local REI meetings are a good place to find these unregulated loan sharks, but not saying they may not be fair, if they have the money they may be willing to get involved with you, a bird in hand type thing.Finance laws are complicated and a hard money lender limits their funding to commercial transactions, most stay away from consumer lending.

As I tell @Ben Leybovich , why not cut to the chase and just become a property manager?

We were the epic "story" that fit this mold.My husband played angry bird through out first rental house (2nd house).

I think at nineteen, my goal was working hard at my job to make money to buy gas with,  soup up my car, hang out with friends and chase girls......on a daily basis.  

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