You can also use sites like rentometer to help confirm your rent price.

Im open to conventional financing or seller financing.To find properties, you can network with local agents and brokers, join local real estate investment groups, use online platforms like Zillow, Realtor.com, and Redfin, send direct mail campaigns, drive for dollars, network with property managers, and explore seller financing.Good luck!

They did this to me.

That being said, before going into any paid mentorship/course, you need a basic level of knowledge.  

A new build should require much lower maintenance expense vs a 100 year old home.Hope this helps.

Get your RE license and sell these on marketYou can also use the marketing skills you learn and direct it toward apartments or commercial real estate and jump into that asset class.

If your reasoning is that you can just use that as a rental while you buy something else (which makes me wonder about your reasoning regarding down payments and closing costs, you're going to have those on the new home you buy), that's not a good reason to turn something into a rental. 

Quote from @Clint Miller: Anyone here in the community used construction loans to scale their development projects?

I'm interested in this as well.

If so, you should diversify into other markets so you can spread the risk out.