Get your credit line set up ahead of time so its ready to go for you as soon as you make your cash purchase.

Example: If you spend $1000 in rent right now, house hack and have a $1500 mortgage, $1000 of which is covered by renting space #2 you are ahead of the game.

Actually going ahead and reaching out for advice here is a huge first step for getting into real estate investing. 

Thanks Jeff, yea it is a bit strange, but I may forge ahead.

Most of my deals that will be fix and rent I go ahead and get an "As Completed" appraisal and underwrite based off of those projections.

Applicants will be happy to sign and take the discount but they will not respect the lease when they decide to leave.You would be farther ahead to offer a discount for them to pay on time and keep them on M2M.

I'll actually be in San Diego this upcoming week and would love to meet to show you what is working for me now and more than likely help you take a step in the right direction in the time ahead!

I might as well go ahead and add a similar question, How will I know when the market changes?

I stand corrected....Thanks @Christopher Phillips, I didn't realize all that needed to be done ahead of time.

Also, if I buy a 2 unit it gets it's own LLC, but a 100 unit would as well... so that is a bit of a head scratcher from that standpoint.