Be careful of renting in Northern liberties, fishtown, brewerytown, point breeze.

A couple great co-living options is STR by the room, Student housing, sober living, Senior care... 

Those are big issues the court seems to care about.

The 15-20 year run people had is gone, so be VERY careful with listening to some of these "real estate gurus." 7.

Find them at local real estate meetups, but be careful, it's a sketchy business overall.

If you don’t care about maximizing loan amount then you could start whenever.

I still think if you're an investor, you need to run your numbers carefully. 

Well I really don't care, I need information and cannot do a darn thing until these are set up!!

Some will actually charge you to use your own unit, so be careful.

At the end of the day, 99% of sellers and brokers only care about your surety to close (I leave out 1% that might care about HOW you operate your deals, regardless of price paid).The fact that you have never closed a large transaction AND are not providing all your proof of funds up front and/or talking with brokers about where the money is coming from, will give them some trepidation.