I have been pondering alternative ways to fund my first investment property. 

One's name is Bob Diamond - America's Tax Sale Attorney and the other is Shawn Buige and his system is called Surplus funds riches. 

I know most residential lenders won't lend to an LLC so my question is should I just house hack the way anyone else would, using my own personal financial status and name, my own funds for the downpayment, and put the multifamily entity and principles aside for now.

Along my journey to understand how to acquire my first property, I have encountered people that swear it’s possible to use other people’s money (for down payment, closing cost, rehabs etc) but on the other hand I have investors of 20,30,40+ years who think I am absolutely nuts for even thinking it’s real & make it very clear that I am an idiot for ever believing such a thing and will 100% need to come up with my own funds.

They're usually a larger fund and can sometimes afford to pay more.

My initial challenge is figuring out how to get funding, as I don't really have a bit amount of money to put down just yet.

I bought my stuff cheap for cash, most over a decade ago.We still find distressed properties and motivated sellers willing to get rid of unwanted properties cheap that we fix up and rent out.I also use cash from my self directed IRA to also buy properties for cheap.

Be sure to be fully funded from day of closing and get all those repairs done asap. 

We also broker multifamily loans to banks, credit unions, CMBS, debt funds, and private lenders.

WE have funded 5 more for him in the last 5 months ..