You need to make sure that your property is easily financeable if you decide to sell it in the future and any future buyer can call out non-permitted items and actually report you to the building department or, at a minimum, ask for seller concessions.

The CFPB made it very clear recently that all of the same consumer protections apply to them: CFPB Takes Action to Stop Contract-for-Deed Investors from Setting Borrowers Up to Fail There are very few if any places these days where you're just going to easily toss a borrower out with a land contract.

So, once you start finding actual deals and can easily present them as deals to others, you can decide whether to:1) Wholesale for quick cash.

Every penny raised for litigation support further dilutes any redemption chances for the original investors IF you have a PACER account all of these cases are in federal courts so you can easily see the status of what is going on as there are multiple suits filed in multiple jurisdictions. 

Overall, it’s an excellent solution for smaller portfolios because you can easily spot any discrepancies.

You can likely find some of these close to where you live and can more easily find deals on these.

My credit is poor right now but can easily be improved as my income is much better lately. 

My biggest fear is that if I ever were to quit my job, I would no longer be able to invest in more real estate (not sure if I would qualify for loans as easily). 

Im at base pay since I Just started, top pay at this job is at 5 years and we make 100k base pay, there are guys easily clearing 160k due to OT and other extra money functions. we also have a lot of opportunity to move up in position, Supervisors clear 230k like nothing so right now I'm not making much but long term this is one of the best city jobs to work.

These course providers tend to sell their customer base on  unrealistic expectations or teach the most basic of concepts which are easily picked up through a book or merely browsing through these forums.