I am looking to buy my first property and thought this would be the best way to catapult me into real estate investing.Home is worth 780K and I would 380K.The thought was to get liquid and leverage the money to purchase a duplex/triplex and have some leftover for maintenance and unknowns.I was told selling my home to my corporation might be the best way to get all my monies in my home for that first step in real estate investing.Looking for comments and suggestions or anyone else in the same situation and how you moved forward. 

Doing this will allow you to leverage your remaining funds as a backup in case surprises occur.  

Leverage your money :)  PM me for details.

My contribution to the thread was a post that indicated that there are under educated RE investors in virtually every market making what appear to be questionable purchases.There are threads like Stupid things perspective tenants say. 

Hello Sara,My best advice - do not over leverage the asset - meaning only take a loan up to 50 - 60% of current market value, therefore if the market does tank and your loan comes due, your not stuck with an asset that has very little equity and unable to refinance.

For financing, am I on the right track with who I've talked to already, or do I need be someone who throws leverage to the wind and simply keep a fat wad of cash for PP+Rehab costs in my bank account until it's time to use and simply skip financing all together?

Ensure that you are budgeting your time accordingly and balancing your real estate education with your actual education.

I'm not afraid to invest in my business and education, but as I am sure anyone is, I am afraid to throw the money away on something useless.

Over the course of the last half decade, through diligent investing, I have compiled an investment portfolio with a conservative appraisal of $2 Million+ with leverage at about $350,000.

Basically, back in 2008-2013, investors had a lot more leverage when it came to hiring contractors than they do now, and any investor who tried to do this would likely find that they were alienating potential contractors and this strategy would backfire.Long story short, in a hot market, this won't work well.