Don't add to the complexity of your deal trying to take care of the financing yourself.The very best way to protect your money partner is to have this professionally accomplished.

There are many other factors but the way they they accomplish this is to reduce your interest rate temporarily to 2% and extend your payment period to 40 years.

If anything blows up you are covered for any work accomplished.

Only use I can see for license/MLS access is a tool for buyer’s agents to find commissions which can be accomplished on any website like Realestate.com, etc…As far as locating deals I can't see how a license or MLS helps that much if at all?

Well in that case they could be investors doing the same thing your trying to accomplish.

Your first step should be to decide what you want to accomplish with your investment.

Thank you for providing specifics on what to put into excel to accomplish this!

And while that does result in real products you can put your hands on, its still nice to accomplish something tangible.

What are your strategies for using the site to accomplish those goals?

You can tell them what you want accomplished and specify a time limit and minimum number of hours, but you can't tell them how to do the job, when to do the job, whether they can sub parts of it out, etc.