Perform a simultaneous exchange where the sale and purchase are both scheduled and occur within a day or two of each other.The easiest way for foreign nationals to get away from the FIRPTA requirements is to purchase and hold property in domestic LLCs. 

New to real estate investing so any help/recommendations means more than you know :) Does anyone know what would be the easiest or most efficient way to go about getting a new quadplex built in the Greater Atlanta/surrounding area?

Buyer agency was the easiest entry point for new agents, and easiest of all "leads" to get.

House hacking your primary home and repeating the process every year or two is the easiest and safest way to build long term wealth through time. 

The easiest way is to bring on a partner who has a lof of capital they are looking to deploy, but I always encourage having sufficient reserves.  

I could get a family gift for $50k but that doesn't make much a dent in the payment to lower DTI.

They have a nice price point and are one of the easiest to use. 

Makes no sense....When I was a GC, of course I got huge discounts, plus gifts and game tickets, etc...but we spent sometimes hundreds of thousands of $$ per year at these suppliers.

If you purchase a property for $100,000 with say $20,000 down; and 3 years later sell said property for $140,000 while the mortgage has been paid down from $80k to $70k, that’s a cash out of $70k, or a $50k gain that can be used to pay down debt.Of course the easiest answer is to marry someone with no debt instead. 

Check them all out and see which would be the easiest conversion from your current situation.