He used to troll these waters for suckers very hard until I found out that his claimed experience and transaction history was fake.

This was a learning experience that will fuel many success to come.On the podcast you mentioned you were going to take a few months off.

The other way I fund deals with none of my own money is using a private lender that I have years of experience and relationship with and/or using HELOC and other business lines of credit.

In my experience, a large percentage of them are fully functional adults that refuse to take personal responsibility for their lives, which is why they are receiving free rent from taxpayers instead of working for a living.

If you can get a single family home and have roommates, that's the most approachable strategy and will really allow you to know rather quickly if you hate managing rentals or not.Here's my experience starting at 22, and what I regretted from house hacking: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/922/topics/1133476-hous... 

Does anyone have experience buying properties for cheap from land banks, renovating them, and renting them out/selling them?

Our strategy is to buy out of shape properties and rehab them back into shape, so a GC with experience in doing extensive renovations at once would be preferred.

How was your experience?

I‘m also happy to travel to speak to groups or provide 1:1 coaching along your purchasing experience. 

However, the HOA then said "we are still fully opposed to the door".I am working with our RE attorney, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips or experience in this situation.