Your agent should also accompany your inspector and take a Walk-thru video for you.BTW: what's your full list of documents you should be asking for as part of your purchase contract requirements?

I started with some youtube videos, as well as reading BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide.

As for using your own money I see frequently on bigger pockets videos they use OPM.

We have been doing our homework, educating ourselves by reading books and watching educational videos online about how to better structure a company/ies for real estate investing.

Prospective applicants can only gather so much from photographs and video.

Ask for VIDEO of the rehab work.

Let's say that you paid $20k to some marketing firm to create and distribute your promotional videos.

When we take a property off of our books, owners usually want a payout right away, but we have to hold some of the money in escrow to make sure we can pay outstanding utilities and bills that haven't been submitted yet.

Where I am the contract is not valid until the EMD has been received and that is usually within 24 hours of submitting your offer. 

Yes for sure - I have an article and youtube video version breaking down the "buckets" of financing options for Multifamily depending on 2-4 Unit Bucket, 5-10 Unit Bucket and 11+ Units - all are very different - I don't think I can share links here but if you DM I can send you the linksI also published an article last year on "small multifamily dscr loans" which should also be helpful!