Another aspect is ethics, if you are not confident enough in the deal to put $1000 at risk, then maybe you shouldn't be doing the deal. 

I understand a good bit of the aspect on student rentals just really confused on how you would advertise.

What's not easy is defining for yourself what does financial independance look like. 

This way, I don't touch the original funds at all, and I can't touch the payback funds until all debt payments associated with it have been paid.This is a proactive, risk control.Now this is just a 30,000 ft view of how I do it, details and other aspects of this system not mentioned here, but this overview of it should give you at least an idea of how you can handle it at your end....and what @Jay Hinrichs just wrote

Personally, I plan to do this in the future since I love the entrepreneurial aspect of real estate investing.

Large multi family: Unfortunately, I do not have much insight on the financing aspects of commercial real estate and how you can use these to leverage less money down.

I am very happy to hear your decision to take action, it will be the defining moment of your journey.

I'm getting a little hung up in the minutiae of this aspect- What questions should I be asking these (hungry) PMs?

Define "pay me for advertising"?

I’ve been getting some conflicting information with regards to the Refi aspect of the BRRRR method on these 1-4 unit properties.