I won’t be giving my money to a guru that needs to sell a 40k product rather than working his own investments.

Hey @John FriendasI have purchased 4 of my Co-Living (rent by room) properties with DSCR, 1 of them within the last few months.Not that I necessarily recommend this, but there are short-term-rental DSCR products.

For value add you need to buy deep, have reputable contractors, and understand different financing products + creative finance.  

You could absolutely save the money and over time, learn everything I learned by listening to podcasts, reading books and watching youtube videos (except having the regular check ins with a mentor).

A 1031 exchange allows you to defer taxes by exchanging real property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment for other real property of like kind, which is also to be held for similar purposes.

You can proceed with a cash out or rate and term refi up to 65-75% LTV depending what product and terms you choose.

Quote from @Jacob Sherman: What type of loan products are you in the market for ?  

So, like all social media and mass production sites, it's not truly there to help the consumer, it's there to make money off consumers using the agents they partner with.

It is not very difficult or complicated to evaluate commercial real estate, there are plenty of good books available that can teach you how, textbooks, online courses, community college classes, even excellent youtube videos etc, and it is actually quite enjoyable in the process to learn.

The Lenders tab at the top of the site helps with finding lenders by product and location.