Beware of people with “something to sell” stating how great their product is.

Attitude and professionalism are paramount; product knowledge next, and then there's your contact/follow-up systems.Put that together, price-test against the market, and you'll have a sustainable, constantly expanding, and very profitable venture.Good luck! 

LexisNexis has a product called "Accurint".

Then connect with some hard money lenders (you can find some here on BP as well as some who are typing this right now) and connect with them to understand their product type, what they like to lend on and requirements.Hard money broker is all numbers game of making relationships and helping those that are looking for financing, it starts out slow but if you get with a few good borrowers and lenders it can be pretty decent money to be made.As an example we paid six figures last year to HM brokers. 

I've also had guests buy their own TP and trash bags and leave the extra.As for toiletries, I leave the traditional "Starter Set" of shampoo, a little bar soap, conditioner, and lotion  (the tiny hotel bottles). 

In 2008 a friend of mine spend $300,000 to buy 100 houses in Detroit.  

However, there are ways to leverage SBA loans so they can buy a new primary and then look at their current property as an investment property and secure a DSCR loan to redevelop and rebuild.

I use Eric Kloth out of Redding and he is stuck with us for this and our future home buying needs. 

Your best route might be to buy a 2 to 4 unit property that you can live in and rent out the additional apartments.

That means that you can buy a property with up to four units, since this is still considered residential.