My neighbor tells me that everyone harvest elk at the back of my property, in the valley where the stream crosses.

You also have the commissions paycheck too so you are generating multiple income streams from this niche.

If investing out of state isn't your thing, I'd recommend going with multifamily so you always have multiple streams of revenue to hedge any financial risks. 

Specific to commercial real estate in the general sense (non-apartments), your income stream is commonly fixed for a long time, i.e.

zillow, rentometer, prop stream, trulia.. 

MLS is too expensive, wholesalers tend to have C/D properties, Craigslist is dry.You guys ever use Prop Stream or other data lists?

Then if I mess up and pay too much for a BRRRR property I have other stream to make up for it hopefully.   

It is a grind but you'll develop a somewhat consistent stream of results if you do it on a daily basis. 

I went through the same, I am an architect and real estate investor and got the license to support that.it seems you have experience and already some clients.I think EXP is the best option so far for that, beside many different income streams it provides.you can do both, residential and commercial from the beginning, and you are tide to MLS geographical locations, I will allow you to do both from the beginning.

A company I was blown away with because of its lending simplicity and cheap rates was Light stream personal loan by  SunTrust bank.