Quick books will kill you and give you zero value, negative actually.   

Rents are super-high, so the chance to rent a private room for less than what your tenant would pay for their own studio or 1BR apartment would be attractive to potential tenants.However, you must figure out a way to qualify to rent the apartment yourself.  

Real estate is not a get rich quick strategy so time and patience are usually needed to scale operations. 

Also, you need to coordinate and get those fixes done correctly and quickly. 

I want to know if there are other ways I can use limited access to capital to help expediate my growth without paying for guru type get rich quick schemes?

A wise investor will not try to get rich quick with shortcuts.

I was attracted by them in their FB post.

If you want a nice online portal to refer them to so they can get protected really quickly let me know.

Additionally, these attract a lot of inexperienced buyers who started in the single family or four plex space who are trying to go bigger. 

Having immediate and constant control of property, plus value add is the most attractive part of REI. $300k in liquidity is certainly a good starting point.