I spent almost all of 2017 searching for my deal with a real estate agent, nothing fancy. 

Don't waste your money on any fancy systems until you're much farther along.   

I have been actively skip tracing since before they had all those fancy programs that made it so easy!

Do I drive a new fancy car?

Just make sure you don't get a fancy house, your just in college you don't need anything fancy.

I also sold a fancy Mercedes.

I like to take care my properties myself and do a face to face interview and see how she dress in order to get the feeling on how neat she is but I am living in oversea now.

So I have my new fancy post cards, stamps, and the tax delinquent list (this is in Michigan).

Now with that said you do want to have a exit stratagey/long term plan.... but you don't need to make it fancy to present.

That's just a fancy way of saying that banks want you to own the property for a certain period of time before they will refinance for the appraised value instead of as a percentage of how much cash you have into it.