You could exchange your footwork for an investory or Joint Venture partner to provide the funding.

I actually have no  money of my own at this  time, my mentor/investor will be  doing the purchasing, I am doing the foot work, however, for every property  I bring my investor/mentor he will bless me with a percentage.

I got some good responses on many different ways and I did some of my own footwork and I have managed to secure $100k through private investors for real estate.

I know that if I'm patient and put in some footwork I can find a property for around 160-200k that I'm happy with.

You will learn the most by putting in the footwork.

Purchase price: $65,000, $6,000 down Cash invested: $8,500 Sale price for 50% equity: $10,000Profit: $1,500Partner paid mortgage.Total investment in the property: 6,000 down payment; 500 in lawyers fees to draw up documents for an eviction/offer of equity to tenants, and for the sale of my equity to my investment partner; 2,000 in my time and materials cleaning up the property and doing research and footwork to sell my equity.What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

I can provide the foot work, lead generation and  networking with the guidance of a experience out or in state RE investor. 

That requires a bit more research, for sure, and some more fancy footwork for you and your QI, but if it were me I would use that equity as DPs on several cash flow props in a good rental market.Not sure if that helped at all, just my perspective if it were me.Good luck!

I will hold out a little longer without as much anxiety and do some foot work around town.

You can do tons of learning/footwork/networking after you get home from school and on the weekends.