There are several companies that do qualified exchanges buy allowing you to hold shares of real estate indirectly, but the physical real estate assets are owned directly by the companies. 

if you do not have enough money find the folks who do who are also open minded about your journey.The key is to find passionate A team members the ones who will believe in you.Perhaps I am not the best person to provide this advice because after all ... heck I am just a newbie and only 2 months and 14 days in commercial real estate journey....Yet somehow I already found one person just from a local meeting who I managed to bond with well.The idea here is to be likable and yes make contacts across both virtual levels and physical levels.In case if interested how I get folks to trust me.. even though I am just a newbie feel free to check out my journey, where I document my actions and simply share with folks my passion to gain financial freedom by investing into multi family building.If interested to see how on earth am I doing this feel free to ask me to share the link to my blog and I will gladly do so.And once again welcome to this forum and I am excited to have new passionate members in this amazing journey towards financial freedom.

I've completed the continuing ed classes in physical classrooms and online, and online just seemed so much more efficient.

Find all the information on escrow company and talk with the escrow officer, confirm contact information, confirm physical location. 

We look for an oppourtunity to improve physical, operational, and economical efficiencies.

You do not physically need to attend a sheriff's auction as the lender.

I love the physical aspect of real estate and how progress can be actually observed.

I have in recent months while going on walks while listening to youtube videos or BP podcasts, created a lists of about 50-60 physically distressed homes.

Everyone I physically meet are flippers or syndicates

You can also grab probate info yourself from the county, but you'll have to physically go to the courthouse and go through each file to pull address & executor/admin info.There are a lot of new data feed sources popping up lately, but I don't have any experience with them.