Brandon,Speaking from a Banker standpoint the most popular and cost efficient method to build your REI portfolio is a Cash Out Refinance.

Purchase price: $145,000 Cash invested: $25,000 Sale price: $220,000 First fix and flip on a condo, finishes came out nice and felt like a cozy spot after it was done.

Oh nice.

Nice!

She understands creative financing and and can figure out ways to get deals done using methods most agents done even know exist. 

This comes at sort of a weird time as well because we are gearing up to buy a multi-family with traditional financing and if we went with this method we would need to use the capital from that for the cash property.

I still think it's one of the easiest methods to be successful with.  

There is a method of buying a house without qualifying at a bank.

Ah nice.

Also send a new lease with the new rent price to them and have them sign (also do this a month before the previous lease expires/a month before the new lease is in effect).Obviously be nice about it and ask if everything is good in the unit too!