What are some creative ways I can come up with the down payment and rehab money?

Or, for the newbie, begin to help understand how creative real estate investing works.  

I underwrite a lot of deals for others, including creative deals, such as subto, seller financing..the first of all, you do need to know if that's cahs flow @ 6% under their asking price.

I’ve been doing this type of work for way too long, earning whatever number it is my “boss” thinks I’m worth, and I want a career change that gets me out of the rat race.I want to be around happy people (for the most part) doing something creative, that makes me happy, free and lucrative, one that allows me to be my own boss deciding how much money I make, and on my way to living an essential life with multiple streams of income that include me in Europe, writing stories in my free time.

This guys is a genius 

If you're interested in cash flow, you must explore creative investment strategies such as rent-by-the-room, MTR, STR, etc.

@Hernan GeriaLots of strategies, locations, advice, and creative lending.

I have reached out to a couple investors who specialize in fire damaged homes and I’m seeking advice to further expand my reach and partake in other creative exit strategies.

So i start my career in real estate as an agent and about three years ago I discovered Biggerpockets community that I dicovered that the ways of making money in real estate are basically unliomited, creative financing, storage, flipping, house hacking, wholeselling and much more. 

There's pockets all over the greater Tampa Bay Area that are B class and up but balancing that with a decent cap rate is going to be tricky unless you either have low cap rate expectations or are will to do value add to the property or being more creative such as using a short or midterm rental strategy or even room by room with padsplit.2) Verify as well the 1031 is going to allow "like for like" into a single family.