I'll advise you to not do what I did when we sold our business: Don't Panic!  

None of that is true, at all (I could go over why Realtors believe that, it involves both self-selection bias and confirmation bias acting together, but that's not strictly relevant to your question), but that listing agent believes it's true, and will advise their seller client to throw your FHA offer in the trash, if they have any other options at all in terms of which offer to accept, which is very probable in this market... because, guess what, all your competing buyers also have Realtors, and they too are advising their clients to use conventional rather than FHA.

I typically don't advise you get to know the tenants for various reasons...but that's me.Good luck in wherever you start!

My real estate coach is advising to not use debt to buy more debt, but I know there are different views on that.

He is her real estate agent, did he not advise her to get pre-approved?    

@Marian Freshour was advised 7 years.

Please advise. 

We invest in multiple states and have recently been advised to begin looking at the Belleville, IL area by some friends of ours.

I don't think anyone would advise someone to buy an investment property without first learning about the process, I think the same should be true on what to do once that leap has been taken.Open to any suggestions or advice.Thank you

Or if you know any real estate funds that buy these types of properties, please advise.