They always say share what you're doing so here it goes.I definitely am a huge fan of house hacking, however since I won't be able to have a place of my own for at least a year and a half from now due to training, and I wanted to get started investing, I bought my first duplex rental in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it's second largest city.

A plumbing modification that requires digging up the curb trap (or something similar) should cost a few grand.

I came across this while browsing LoopNet today.http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/20416094/1128-Grand-Ave-Phoenix-AZ/

I have some liquid funds that I would like to use for doing my first rehab in Grand Rapids,MI.

YUP not going to get a HML to come in as mezz financing.. you need to put your time and effort into raising capital then go shop.. not that you can't find some seller that will give you a owner financed deal.. but its a lot of leg work finding that one seller that will do that.. it happens of course.. will you put in a year and thousand hours or hit one right off the bat. this broker is protecting his client like he should.. in the grand scheme of things your talking small money.. so it should not be too difficult to go find a 50k investor.. and yes most are all full of BS... not sure if these folks who are all hat and no cattle get a charge out of wasting folks time.. but its seems to be a pretty common theme.  

My wife and I are going to Grand Canary in November and Hawaii in February, and we didn't even consider booking any of the places that don't have AC.

I am looking to get started investing in Real Estate in Grand Rapids, Mi.

In an ideal world, I've got a very low interest rate for 3-6 months (below 5% would be grand), or 0% interest until a certain date when there is a balloon payment or an interest rate higher than 0%.

We got 60,000 miles for each card for spending a few grand a month, and we pay our insurance on all our units with it and any other expenses that occur.  

However, if you identify the problem and make sure you're not repeating it you may find that a 3k loss in the grand scheme of things is a fairly cheap education.I think the best thing to do might be to dump as much information into the post as you can.