Name brand professional brokerage.It offers a rigorous training, leads generation program.

As someone starting out, I just wanted to get a take from more experienced rental property investors.I want to present you with two routes that a guy like me is considering to take: 1) save up capital generated from some sort of active income (a job or side hustle) and then get my feet wet by investing in a lower class, lower capital intensive area/property OR 2) find a willing partner with money they are willing to invest with me and use their cash as leverage for something like the down payment or any repairs that needs to be made.From my current perspective, Option 1 will take more time, but provides me a little more security in the sense that I'm not putting anyone else's money at risk nor am I diving into the deep end of a higher end market (in my case, Southern California).

@Jimmie Perales a lender will need you to have a stable income that you can generate while in Minnesota. 

My short term (2-year) goal is to generate $2,000/month of cash-flow.

I guess since I will not be generating any realtor commission because I have another agent buying and listing my properties (she will deal with the broker split), I can have the branding of my LLC on the site and maybe there’s a workaround there.

When done right, apartments can produce passive income for generations and mind boggling returns, without the risks of other investments. 2) Buying Too Small - Anything under 16 units will not produce enough free cash flow to warrant doing the deal. 2 units, 4 units, 6 units, and 8 units are not enough scale to make sense of the deal, unless you are buying to merely flip the property, but now you are speculating not investing.3) Single-Family Home Rentals - This is an issue because you are dependent upon one tenant.

For example if you can purchase and rehab all in for 200K and the 4 units generates 4k per month. 

Investing in a state with no tax means just that- you pay no tax on your income generated in that state. 

I recently laid out a 5 year plan for us to achieve a $6k/mo cash flow from 12 properties that each generate a $500/mo cash flow at which point she can retire and she’s very on board with that! 

We wanted to start a lead generation process as well, whether that be through mailers, skip tracing, etc.