While I'm there installing a faucet, I'm also cleaning the exhaust fans, fixing the doorbell, painting some touch-ups, snaking drains, etc. 

It was exhausting & then I met a fellow investor who lived very well & I asked her HOW!! 

They need to be in financial distress (savings exhausted) and actually have to be missing payments.

Sounds exhausting for someone like me.

However, I've had trouble getting a bank to open a HELOC on my investment property.If you've exhausted all the local banks, you can probably find a Hard Money Lender near you, but they are more useful for flips, and if you don't have a history flipping, I'd caution you against using hard money for your first flip as it increases the risk of loss enormously.Best of luck!

These of course do not exhaust all possibilities but you can see that these people would be differently motivated. 

Hey guysI came across a good deal for a house I would like to get as a rental property, and made my offer.After inspection, the report show some issues that can not be ignored plus some minor issues (faulty dishwasher, not working garage door, faulty exhaust fan, etc.).The house probably needs to get new roof, new AC, new furnace, attic pest and some plumbing leaks that need to be fixed. 

However, like Kevin said, if conventional financing is viable in your scenario, exhaust that first.

You need to determine, through exhaustive MLS analysis; where your property falls into the housing market through rents, how close are you to the areas which are getting higher rents, why are they getting higher rents, are you in a market which is declining and so forth.4.  

But probably no point in doing it while Coronavirus is still an issue, and offices may not even be open to the public anyway.The standard advice for new agents is to exhaustively list all your contacts, everyone you know - whereupon you will be amazed at how many people you know - and then come up with a plan for telling everyone that you're a new agent.