Don't stick your toe in the water and continue to just reading internet articles, taking classes and buying courses without taking action. 

Investors can also access both debt investments in the form of first or second-position loans secured directly or indirectly by residential and commercial properties usually yielding a fixed interest rate of 8-12% annually as well as equity investments in residential and commercial properties offering cash flows during the hold period and/or a portion of the profits upon a sale of the property.RealtyShares is an online investment platform that uses the internet to pool investors into funds that hold an interest in a pre-identified private real estate investment.

So here goes...I live in the Memphis area and worked for 3 years as an affiliate broker helping primarily investors locate and acquire various investment properties for both flip and hold investment strategies.  

It's pretty cut and dry.Sneaking off to the bathroom or break room to take calls, using your employer's internet that they pay for, printing out personal documents and copies, are all forms of theft and quickly degrade you in the eyes of your boss.Again, sorry to be harsh but I've run a business and let employees go who decide that their outside interests take precedence over the time I am paying them for.

I recently found bigger pockets on my internet exploration and research and I find myself wanting to do more with Real Estate.  

@David Morrissey a quick internet search will usually give you the results for finding real estate groups in your local area.  

However, that's really not okay that your hard money lender didn't get you fully qualified/approved for the conventional loan with their affiliate lender prior to originating your hard money loan.  

Many of our tenants don't have bank accounts or access to the internet beyond smartphones - the primary benefits of adopting software seem to be to allow ACH rent payments, have a portal for maintenance requests that we can quickly get out to contractors, and avoid the phone ringing off the hook/having to stop by so many properties on a weekly basis.

Be very careful of advice on what you can and cannot do on any internet website because the law is so different.

I tried again later with starting my own internet business after thinking that well I have an associates in multimedia and just got these 2 free tickets to a start your own e-business seminar.