Additionally, If anyone knows of other methods to get into investing without tons of cash on hand please feel free to comment and share your knowledge, information and experiences.

I have been reading and researching as much as I can about the BRRRR method and have been working some figures on some possible properties.

I already own two homes that are my personal residences, and my DTI most likely wouldn't sustain another house WITHOUT the lender offsetting the debt with the rents to some degree - is there any other method of providing lenders with rent history that you have used?

I went to community college only for one semester and had that all paid for by my employer at the time.

Google search the city , populatIon, employers affordable housIng projects 2.

Kathryn -  obtaining a loan through a lender  will normally require  2 years of  history of  consistent  positive income …...so if the plan is to use this  method of  financing  - keeping  the job is beneficial …..if you plan to use the more creative methods of  financing deals - then this issue isn't quite as important  the other lender issue to be aware of is that many lenders  have a limit on the  #s of properties  with financing an applicant  has in their name …...some cap at  7  ...some cap at  10 ...some may not any cap

(I'm not an employing broker, though.)

He has some creative methods.

Commercial properties are valued using Cap Rate and income methods.  

A lot of the research I've done shows that it has a declining population and not much job growth happening, with many large employers laying off a lot of people.