Any recommendations on real estate investing course or classes? 

Don't own real estate then.

I'm in real estate full time so I'm happy to connect and help you get started.

Purchase price: $187,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Sale price: $259,000 I got tired of moving place to place and worrying about finding roommate, security deposits and not having enough money to deal with maintaining someone elses home.

Can anyone recommend a firm that does not use Lexis Nexis for background checks? I was going to use Kiavi, but apparently I do not have a consumer profile and lexisnexis has to locate it and this can take a while and ...

Quote from @Seo Hui Han: You may want to consider local banks / credit unions just because many of them will require or give you more favorable terms for things like HELOC's and other line of credit products if you have a deposit account with them. 

I don't care what the reason is; once they put the deposit down, they are under contract.

Real Estate is investing.

To thrive in real estate investing, you must maintain a firm grip on your finances.

What I love about Baselane is that it was built BY real estate investors FOR real estate investors so it's really dialed in to what you're going to need in order to prepare your taxes, keep your books up to date and the more operational aspects of being an REI like tenant vetting and processing rent payments.