Would a better route involve using the BRRRR method with a hard money lender to get started on my first property? 

Besides they don't work anyways.Cold calling, forget it.forget all these "free methods".

@Kyle Spearin because of my credit score and college debt, I was drawn to some of the creative methods of purchasing rentals I read about on “Rental Property Investing with Low to No Money Down”.

It is even more expensive to try to find another tenant, that will need to adapt the premises for the new business.

Analytically I'll be following building permits by zone to get an idea of what's going on in our area but if anyone has any other method of analyzing what's really going on in different zip codes by statistics I'd love to hear/see them! 

Question 5) As some might question the conventional method, please be mindful I'm in college, and much younger than an average investor.

Early on, I had a coach that really stressed social media advertising over all other methods.

Hi, when selling a home with a partner and there’s a profit is the right way to calculate how much each partner receives is to use the ROI calculation?
Partner 1 total expenses $30,000 + Partner 2 total expenses $45,...

Rookie investor here, just trying to see folks different methods when looking at  New properties for the 1st time.

Or a better way to ask this question is what's your method for scheduling draws so that you're not left with only $1000 to pay at the final draw.