If you are going on your own, I would save up and then one deal is done move that money to the next deal and so on.

I'm now figuring out how to gather 15 people on a Thursday morning. 

Regarding the advice you've received from others, the best thing to do is to learn your market. 

Originally a 30 year lease, theres about 20 years left to an advertising agency. 

Feel free to send me message and we can setup a time to connect! 

We use a third party servicer to do all of this - much easier and when starting just tracked payments in wuickbooks as servicer tracked everything else 

Owner financing and HELOC on personal residence How did you add value to the deal?

My dream to own a hotel one day. 

I'm new to real estate investing and I'm looking to connect with local investors. thank you.

I don't have personal experience with it, but when the app was first developed, I contacted the developer and put the app through a fairly robust test usage to see if it's something I would want to recommend to my clients (I'm a CPA).I think the app is great for its intended purpose and I do recommend it to my clients now (and have for about 18 months now).