Upon entering the world of BP for the past several months and reading/listening to numerous articles/podcasts, I feel an individual will not know the true realm of the investment side until they dive in head first.

Zeona mentioned how lucky she got numerous times with her Landlords and discussed the timing of what she did (i.e. how Airbnb was that popular yet).

While their are numerous legitimate ways to structure a "creative" transaction, almost all fall into one of the following categories1- Convince an INDIVIDUAL - often the seller, to finance 100% of the purchase price2- Syndicate the purchase by raising equity capital - you will have to give up a majority of the equity in the transaction3- Take over an existing loan, and borrow the "equity" from the seller, or a third party individual at a high interest rate.You have to do a "sales job" on someone to make a nothing down situation work.  

There are numerous sf homes in our area that with minor cleanup and some carpet and paint.

Since you are a physician, I would imagine your income should allow you easily get numerous loans to purchase 2-4 unit properties.  

Only issue id have with them is the numerous and very expensive "expedited" shipping options.

As it currently stands, it uses the after-rehab rent values for the GSI in the denominator, but uses the before-rehab value of the home (purchase price) in the numerator?

Since we hold workshops for investors, we see numerous of examples of missrepresented ARVs, conditions and sq ft.

I have been offered numerous times and they have the cash ready.

There are numerous banks that do a cash out refi after 6 months.