As a Banker with 18+ year’s experience I tend to offer the best of the news to inspire and work out the details during the interview.

As someone who has a knowledge of *one* market, I'm genuinely seeking advice on evaluating other markets.

Hi Monique,I'm a local rookie investor and had tons of inspiration and knowledge gained from networking with other people, podcasts and reading tons of material.

Your hard work and determination have paid off, and it's inspiring to see you take this big step in your real estate journey.

I know you’re not interesting in designing it yourself, but inspiration images can help the designer understand your style.I hope this is helpful.

I genuinely want to find the rationale behind the 5%-6% commissions.David Greene's explanation for this is that "probably 95%-98% of the times that a Realtor helping clients, they don't get paid for...You have to compensate them enough so they make enough to support themselves for all the people that are not paying them."

You are going to have a lot of trouble finding financing options with a 2nd lien and to 100% make up a purchase price (i.e. 100% debt financed with no equity or down payment "skin in the game") as part of your payment.I'd recommend looking in the "Creative Financing" subforum if you want to explore potential ways of doing this but frankly it is really difficult to find a genuine "shortcut" that wont end badly for not investing any of your money at all.BRRRR Method remains IMO the best for this but you still have to put some of your own capital to use during the process

Your reply inspired me to spent some time this morning running the number on a cash-out refi.

Thank you for all your advice and inspiration!

I'd also like to share some of the extra informative women on BP that I've been following over the years, in case you find them as helpful in the future as I have:@Brie Schmidthas been inspiring to me, as another young investor breaking free with RE to travel and enjoy life :)  @Elizabeth Colegroveis a super sharp landlord with a BP blog I got to see again in person recently :) @Marcia Maynardwas nice enough to come out to speak at my Summit in SF as a great landlord (and person) and one of the prolific female landlord contributors to BP.