It will take some time to vet the ones you really want to work with and that are good resources for you to use month in and month out. 

I have been asked quite a few times.  

Then, after I had experience and several wins, people were willing to partner with me on deals, or lend to me in second position for a short period of time to help with the down payment and with repairs and then I would pay them back when I would refinance.

We made some big changes coming to Movement Mortgage early this year and we are incredibly grateful to be thriving and loving it here at Movement.

The latter takes available cash, but you may be surprised at what you can do if you are willing to put in the time!

I’d recommend saving that $295 cash flow for some amount of time until you have considerable cash reserves saved up.

I'm new here, and am ready to start investing my time into learning the strategies to get my first rental in 3 months.

An appraiser likely isn't going to spend time giving you much feedback in advance (unless you have a connection or they are super slow).   

I still think they need to upgrade their security for me to trust their system again but at least their customer support was able to sort it out, just took some time.

I tend to ask the same questions multiple times over a period of time to see if I get consistent answers.