You can also check meetup.com or search Facebook for real estate investment groups, clubs, or meetings in your area.

Most newer wholesalers I meet are looking to do this just to build their own portfolio, hold on to the properties they want and capitalize on the ones they do not.

If the owner does not meet that residency requirement, another human being must be identified as the local agent in charge.

You have come to the right place to begin your investing journey.Have you looked into attending local meetings and joining Facebook groups?

Meet with a local banker & schedule a time to talk with a mortgage broker, they'll give you at least a baseline of what kind of down payment options and rates are out there.After that, if you're still wanting to research more creative options, do some looking into seller financing (a very hot topic with good, and bad, advice out there), look into private lenders, and commercial financing options.If you're wanting to live in 1/4 of your quadplex, then conventional residential loans may in fact be your best option as you can purchase that with a fannie/freddy loan with very low down, and use up to 75% of the income from the property toward your own income. 

The Wichita market currently does not have enough supply to meet the buyers need. 

We should meet up sometime and knowledge share.

I would suggest coming to some investing meet ups and just start talking to others and form a plan based off of that.

I was in the military ( making me a veteran now) and during my time in I shared all kinds of living conditions with strangers and friends.

ways to meet such people would be meetups, or simply walking into some smaller offices, could also ask around to other owners of the assets you are interested in and see who helps them.