Seems like safest play is be patient and safe for down payment, but curious how others got started if they weren’t able to do this. 

Working in commercial will play to your analytics background, and will allow you to build robust systems and processes. 

How can you play into it where you can use the 80/20 rule or 80/10/10 rule?

Or those that leverage bit coin at the wrong time and lost hundreds of thousands on that play.. and for sure character assassination on the internet is not going to right the ship crazy

We used to do a video of the MoveIn Checklist a tenant filled out - with them in the video pointing out all the issues.We did this to have "irrefutable" evidence of any tenant-caused damages, to charge them.It usually worked, but we did have a judge or two disagree with us or not allow us to play our video in court:(Point is, if you have great documentation you can charge the tenant for damages they cause.

We will see how it plays out.  

Basically saying the seller would pay a commission of XX percent based on the agreed total amount of an executed purchase and sale agreement.This way the seller does not play games with commissions.

That ship has already sailed, but all of the stuff we do is within 10 min of downtown...lots of gentrification, and even though that's not our play (we're all about cash flow), there's lots of potential upside for appreciation.  

Don't play with senior money like a junior.

Right now with the feasibility study We're anticipating about $4,000 for the SFH and $2,200/mo/unit on the ADUs, totaling about $10,600/mo in rent revenue so the initial rents look great.However, I don't know how the loan will play out.