I'm always open to networking with people who are passionate, motivated, have a purpose and genuinely enjoy helping one another elevate.

Fellow BP'ers: I'm part time real estate investor looking to elevate my investment strategy into multi family.

Give your elevator speech and make some contacts.  

From there have your elevator pitch of how you can add value to there business by allowing you to shadow them.

The "$8/hr employee" is just a figure of speech, the idea is that this employee is not expensive relative to the big picture

Another hybrid example, on the fund side, is investing in value-add deals where a repositioning provides an elevation in performance on the front side of the deal (call it a "flip and hold").  

Here’s how I got my start and how it’s elevating me to the next level and giving me confidence and leverage to do even more deals in the near future.

Further, any other encumbrancers would be elevated in priority so it's possible that a second mortgage would now become a first and fully secured by the equity you paid for.

Another investor I know has a 1 level condo for sale but it is on the 3rd floor in a beautiful building that does NOT have an elevator.

Your property may be in a flood zone/area but be at a higher spot elevation that takes it out of that area, only a spot elevation survey can determine that. :)