I’m willing to volunteer my time to assist with tasks, research, or anything that supports your business while I learn the industry.If you’re open to mentoring someone hardworking and motivated, please reach out—I’d love to connect!

They remain whatever the original borrower has.When you use typical financing from a lender, you have the lender's hoops to jump through and loan origination fees, the appraisal has to come in at a certain number, oftentimes an inspection or appraisal will kill a deal. 

I purchased a property 5-6 years ago and then 2-3 years ago took out a HELOC to payoff the remaining mortgage and am now paying off the HELOC (I actually had it paid off last year but then used the HELOC to purchase another property and am now paying it back down).

. - and more..I'd recommend remaining active not only here on BiggerPockets, but in other valuable RE investment networks that you can find - i.e. local meetups (meetup.com, eventbrite, BP local events). 

One of the constants that I still see from when I first started on BP in early 2016 is the willingness of experienced ( some on this very thread ) folks in different aspects of real estate to try and help newbies and others with advice and perspective.I think it really is a testament to the fact that even though the investing environment has undergone many changes over those years the willingness to continue to help others has not changed.It helped me tremendously when I had to crash course on small MF ownership and I am grateful to all who helped with posts that they didn't even know that I had read and learned from.And yes the search function remains fairly useless and unchanged in that regard since then to the detriment of us all.

Is anyone still using free classified sites to market for Motivated Sellers?

Essentially, it was one account with the bank tracking individual tenant details on your behalf.That said, it’s critical to ensure your financial records remain accurate by reconciling the account on a monthly basis.

Give them a little extra motivation to maximize property income and keep things running smooth like butter.

It really depends how motivated you are.

My money is on nice neighborhoods in DC remaining strong regardless.