Finding money is nearly impossible for a small business when you write everything off and wondered about trying to raise money through crowd funding?  

Hello,I’m just wondering if there are any investors who use lease options in the Southern California area.

I'm wondering if I were to crunch the numbers and find a viable place, if I can make an offer to lock in the place, and then what "loopholes" I have if later I decide the place isn't right to purchase.For example, if my offer included a requirement for a home inspection, and that inspection comes back with 10 things noted by the inspector.

I heard that self managing the rentals for a while helps build experience and truly understand what PM's face ,but I have no experience .I was hoping to use different services for the basic tenant management tasks ; I was wondering if anyone has any advice on the following:1>Rent collections - I am hoping there are services that can help me collect rent, call the tenant if late to remind them ,take some basic calls from them regarding rent collection .

I'm interesting in looking at markets in other cities and would like to get involved in multi-family properties and as I continue to learn begin innovating.The ultimate goal for me, like with many, if not most, others, is to attain financial independence as well as security.I'm super excited to get involved and learn as much as I can within this wonderful community!

Any help would be wonderful.

Option - In legal language, a real estate option is an agreement that grants the party owning the option, the optionee, the exclusive, unrestricted, and irrevocable right to purchase property from the party selling the option, the optionor, during the specified period of time that the option is in effect.I'm wondering if it is possible to control a house using an option to purchase in order to renovate the property (fix and flip) without actually buying the assett with a HML. 

I’m just wondering what the average elapsed time from unit purchase to rental is for most fix and holds.

Just wondering about that. 

That is wonderful.