You will appreciate what a couple of month of effort and education can do for your credit with very little financal output.

If you can show that the numbers work, you can get 100% of the purchase and rehab covered.The key is finding lenders who work with new investors.2.Partnering with Experienced Investors– If you don’t have capital, you can offer your time, effort, and hustle in exchange for a piece of the deal.

In this market, I would not finance a first time flipper at 75% profit split because the profits and success rate is lower than the last dozen years.  

Even if you have a higher return in the stock market, you'd be doing it with a lower basis after tax and it will take a long while to recoup from that. 

Most of the ones I bought had existing tenants and almost all were paying below market rents and way below market rents.

While we are not immune to market shifts, we typically don't see huge bubble bursts. 

Quote from @Brandon Larson: It's important to have established policies and procedures, but I wouldn't put a lot of effort into that with only a duplex under management.

Utilities included.Fully rented.For sale off market.

You have to set them up, market, book and clean. 

A lot of different strategies work very well in the Cleveland market.