What’s best way to find/approach/acquire funding from a hard money lender when you have never flipped a home?

Would you invest in multiple single family units or try to find a multi unit property and acquire more doors all at once?

I have been able to acquire to 4 plexs this year and am grateful and even more hungry to scale my business now, although capitol to move forward is beginning to get tight, even with using PML.

I assumed (wrongly) that acquiring financing for a $40k mortgage would be a non-issue.

in our market here we build 3 to 4 thousand new apartment doors yearly. that's one city metro.. so this in itself keeps rents from going to nuts.. but the new construction depending on where it is is 100 to 400 a foot to build.. its a 100k to build one on the low end up to 400k for one 2 bd apartment in an elevator building on the higher end..when you can go to rural US and buy existing homes in some of these small bergs for 50 to 70k and in some small towns in PA for instance I have seen many for 10 to 20k.. does not take much there to be successful renting those out.. cost of acquiring them is more akin to being in the used car business. 

My goal is to begin my real estate journey buy acquiring a multi-unit i can occupy and rent out to cover to the mortgage and hopefully create small cash flow. 

I'm on the same boat as you, looking for successful investors who have the time to teach newbies how to run a successful business.I am a REALTOR as well, my plan is to hustle to grow my real estate business, use the capital to deploy it into flips or live & flips, & use newly acquired capital to finance my rental properties.

Im currently in Union county and will be acquiring in Essex County next.

I intend to purchase a multi family investment property and I have several individuals who want to contribute  to the capital necessary to acquire a property.

Any thoughts on how I can begin acquiring sfh with no money down techniques.