@AJ Smith You're going to need to get an education by getting in there and looking at properties. 

My questions are what resources do you recommend I use to best educate and protect myself from investors?

You can buy sub2 as well.All that said, credit is a small part of the transaction, your education, experience, knowledge, team, and abilities all will factor in.

Personally, the peace of mind of renting, saving and self educating more appeals to me more than forcing myself into a deal with my ENTIRE savings leaving me zero in the bank to obtain a property. 

Hopefully this helps and also I highly suggest that you educate yourself more with MHP space as you may encounter few things that isn’t same as other multi family investment

Just to educated hard money is “as good as cash” but it NOT cash.

I have about $20k in savings, $30k in equity on my house, student loan debt of $10k, car debt of $10k, and $140k left to pay down on the house over the next 27 years.I have been educating myself on buy & hold rental properties, and will be making the leap in the near future. 

Sometimes these are about the numbers like they are tonight and other times we just get updates from local professionals to see what they see happing in their business like we did last month.We have case studies from local investors so you can see who is doing deals and what real numbers look like.We have local and national industry providers who share what they can do to help your business RIGHT now.And last we have educational speakers on various topics. 

I have been working diligently to educate myself, and just when I think I understand my best strategy, I learn something else or get clarification that changes my view, and I would love some wisdom! 

I'm a recent graduate and I've had some jobs, but mostly they were secondary to my education.