It won't be easy, but you sound like a guy that can handle the big issues with a sound mind.We had an incident where four people were driving to another town when their fireworks went off in the car (rumors are that one of them was smoking). 

Wherever they are, people go.

Then you start to get a following, people reach out because what you did with them..

I am starting my journey as a Real Estate Investor and I am looking for any advice into what online tools do people use to find and filter each deal.Is there particular websites that are recommended to get additional information of a particular deal?

Attend meetups and meet as many people in RE as you can.

They told me that they like to lend to people with solid experience.

I didn't intend to try to scale until I heard so many people talk about becoming financially free (quitting W2 job).

Right now I find that I can easily find properties but have been finding difficulty showing proof of funds making people  willing to  wholesale their properties.

There are a few good people in the company, but the bureaucratic overhead and separate divisions always caused issues.

With the new funding the IRS has received, they are assigning more agents to people like us.