Realtor.com, etc.) and still I haven't achieved my goal of acquiring my first investment property.The properties that I had my eyes set on at the auctions/sheriff sale have all been stayed (every time).

Conventional requires you to season the loan for 6+ months and it has to be in your personal name for those 6 months.Therefore you can't acquire the property in your LLC with hard money and then refinance into your personal name without quit claiming the deed during your hard money loan and waiting 6 months.

I am analyzing using higher leverage to acquire more properties and want to put only 15% down.

The reason Bob did not buy the property outright from Mike is because the end goal is to fix and sell, so it seemed silly to pay excise tax twice, also there was a lien on the home and Bob did not want to fool with financing to acquire the property to just turn around and sell.  

I told him I’d be interested in discussing if we can come up with a deal for us to acquire his properties so he can find his triple net lease.He said he wants to 1031 exchange the sale of the properties for a commercial property.

Whether it's watching YouTube vids, podcasts, books, blogs, or just talking to anybody about REAL ESTATEWell, on September 6th, I bought my 1st property and it happens to be a 4-plex MFR which I acquired at the trustee sale at the Pinal County Courthouse.

We also plan on partnering with a friend to help with initial investment, cosmetic rehab (we plan to do the work ourselves and are not looking to knock down walls or anything major), splitting property management responsibilities, etc.I am hoping the community can help me out with some questions that I am still trying to tackle.1)  I am struggling with the financing aspect of acquiring a loan with a partnership.  

I think you will acquire property faster by spending more and leveraging. 

As a beginner I'm assuming it will take time to acquire more properties to get to our cash flow goal since we are planning this as a side hustle.

I want to get into Single Family Home Flipping in C+ to B neighborhoods to then switching to acquiring solid multi family properties for long term income and cashflow.