Up until now I've been using private lending partners, friends, and family money but we are buying more homes than we have funds for so am looking for alternative funding sources.  

I have many investors I have worked with that rave about the great information and support they received from the users of this site.

I'd like to buy a small townhome to start my investing, but I do not own a house myself, I feel like if I do not do it before buying my own home, I wont do it because I'll invest everything we have in our house leaving nothing left for investing.We actually pay 1200, and we can possibly buy a 70-90K property that can yield 1000/mo.Some friends have advised us to buy a property, live it and then rent it, but we are not sure.What are your opinions?

I live in Beaver and am an investor friendly Realtor as well as investor.  

My friend @Jay Hinrichs taught me something very important: the 3 C'sCharacter of the borrowerCapacity of the borrower to repay the loanCollateralHope I have given you some points to consider.

I've found an unlisted property that transferred for 23k all cash 5 years ago and is now an abandoned duplex w/ a zestimate of around 105k based on B/B count and sq ft, lot size etc...local etc... no current mtg. listed so I'm scoping it pretty hard as my first wholesale offer...trying to find a realtor that can pull comps for me but since they don't really have any skin in the game nor would they I'm not getting much enthusiasm from so-called Realtor friends that I've had...

I am a title agent with an investor friendly title company In Maitland, FL. 

I have a number of friends/family/coworkers offering to invest in our business, so I am leaning strongly toward using their money for transactional funding which does not appear to be very common.  

Does anyone have experience with Rent Monitor as a software platform for managing units and collecting rent (current users)?  

I have friends who do this and I am aware of some of the issues, tenants, laws etc.