Most of the large lenders have affiliate programs and will teach you for free to represent them.

If it is someone you know you can give them a straight return as if its a loan - can provide a lower interest rate to provide upside - it really depends on the lender and what are they concerned with and what is their risk profile. 

This doesn't mean I'm not exposed to tail risks that could demise my life, but I feel a lot more protected and have no real stress in my daily life. 

Feel free to reach out and if not then good look furthermore

He even chatted with me through this forum (Bigger Pockets) and was very encouraging that you can even do it just with free stuff out there.  

I currently broker LIHTC multi-family for a large firm coast to coast and am also interested in MF in the Arizona submarkets as well, and will eventually invest on that scale - I just figure breaking into the state through SFH flips may be a more risk adverse way to understand the pros and cons to phoenix submarkets.

They offer a free phone consultation.

It's not good to burn bridges in this business, and we agents do a lot of free work that we never get paid for.

Check out FilePlace, where user-created forms are available for free.

We have also negotiated attractive loan structures with many lenders including reduced fees for our community, free refinancing, lower rates, unique portfolio options, etc.