.🏁 As of this Wednesday, my journey toward financial independence has reached its (soft) conclusion.🏘 At 23 years old, I have built an asset base that generates streams of income that are healthy enough to support my basic living expenses.

Do I get a firm or soft mattress??? 

Okay that's the soft side of me. 

But you do need to make sure you can hang on to it long enough.Bay Area has seen soft economies too, the dot com crash was certainly obvious.

I am open to buying a good deal, with my parents help, if it crosses my path but I want to better understand the process; I want to make offers weekly just to see how the numbers work but I am not sure how a real estate would react to sending 2-3 offers weekly to a college student who doesn't have an official pre-approval, (although I have used better.com and amerisave.com to see what i qualify for using a soft pull on credit), nor a full time job just yet.Does anyone have any advice?

To work with our company we do a soft pull to verify identity.

Typically, we would simply do a 12-month bridge at 80%ish of the cost of the lot plus build costs plus soft costs up to 70% of the As-Completed Value then, if you chose to keep it, we would covert it/refi it to long-term financing. 

Awesome bass fishing there!

Bonus points if the lender can do const finance and then final occupied financing.To get that, you'll need:1) Figure zoning out and how many you can or want to build2) Go to architect and builder and get a sway on layout and costs3) Most painful, go to the governing entity for permits and pay your soft costs. 

At this point, I'll likely sell 3 or 4  properties this year but 2 or 3 of them already have a soft commitment from people who know me and are in my circle so there won't be realtor commissions and that savings is shared-I do this as I know they can close the deals once we settle on a price so I don't have to worry about some of shenanigans/games a bunch of realtors and buyers try to play.