I would be happy to help you explore first-time buyer programs and financing options to make your purchase smoother and set you up for your future rental plans.

I ended up attending one of those weekend seminars for a few hundred bucks that tries to sell you on a 30k coaching program.

I've worked with some Canadians buying  here in Ohio.Indeed, rather than selling your stocks to fund investments (and lose out on any potential price appreciation and dividend payments, as well as incurring capital gains taxes), a nice alternative is to borrow against some percentage of the holdings.You would start with the brokerage where you hold the stocks and see what their loan program looks like for the account you hold. 

Our program only requires a small 10% down payment on the purchase price and we will fund 100% of your rehab costs.

Its pretty awesome (BTW, I am not affiliated with FUB, just a passionate users)You can capture all the homeowner demographics along with associated relationships and information - pictures, files, emails, notes, calls, text, etc.You can have a team number(s) at no addition costs (we use it to lead generate for different states and can be configured to round-robin. 

It is a corporate housing arbitrage mentoring program.I'm about to sign up but wanted to do my due diligence I want to check with people here if this is legit and if the program is worth the money they as asking for.

Look into Illinois first-time buyer programs for potential grants, and think about leveraging business credit once you’re established.Good luck!

Plenty of programs would be happy to help you out, but I would be intrigued to see how a deal would look like for you being willing to take on the rehab funds yourself.Good luck!

And there are lots of conventional loan programs where you can put down <20%If it were me, and I was committed to purchasing, I would try and land an off market property needing a bunch of work and force appreciation that way.

I believe they're almost 8% with that program currently but if it provides an entry point, you should consider it!