and the realization only came to me... that the money is truly there... after... i placed my mindset in the direction of financial freedom and started documenting my journey...Note... remember conventional loans, or HELOCs or anything else in that nature that can help you get your multi family house.. .if you have an existing home or no existing home... are nothing but the tools for you to get closer... but diving into these tools, causes hassle factor... and causes your brain to operate across different spectrum... making it frustrating and making it very tough to understand...However, it becomes a lot less difficult to understand things when you do have money... simply because your brain begins to think differently when you already place your self in the position that you actually already gathered that 100k.....  

The way I see it the profit motive lays on a spectrum from altruistic to greed.

What I've found is that there is a HUGE spectrum, and a lot of contributing factors to determine the terms and fee structure.I appreciate everyone's input!

@Jackson Andrews there was a study done by Spectrum, a location services company, that tracked over 18,000 companies leaving CA between 2009 and 2018 - they took 275,000 jobs and ended up leasing or acquiring 133 million SF elsewhere.

You will gradually get better as you go through the model-->purchase-->operate cycle if you intend to be a buy & hold investor.Your posting asked for advice on becoming an expert in the full spectrum of multi-family and commercial properties.

Let's stop confusing the misinformation, embellished outlier stories, trite truisms, unverifiable shortcuts and unsustainable business strategies that are "taught" by gurus with the real education in real estate provided by real educators.At the lower end of the "real" real estate education spectrum are the real estate broker/agent courses, both initial licensing and continuing education offered by both community colleges and privately owned real estate schools, both physical and online.The next step up are the short term courses offered by the real estate institutes of major colleges, open to anyone, such as those offered by  NYU or Wharton.  

Each to their own and nothing personal but there is also the other side of the spectrum where folks don’t know what they are doing, use stupid leverage and get into a lot of trouble.

(tried to get Master's on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum!)

Those two seem to be on opposite end of the spectrum, and both making good points.

I'm going to try and take this conversation from black 7 white, into "Technicolor" and see if vision in this full spectrum doesn't help reframe some mindsets.