This enables you to use their money and their expertise in vetting a deal which will be a great training experience for you.You will fin din that process you will connect with people wanting you to help them find deals. 

Through the daily grind of selling to SMBs and the experience of starting a sales team from scratch, I have strong experience in "systemizing" a lead funnel leading to constant improvements in sales efficiency at both the rep and team level (ask me about sales enablement tools, I love them!).

Doing it that way would enable you to get this deal done and learn how to do the next one yourself.

When you form a Partnership the best type keeps you in control and makes all Partners involvement and ownership variable.When you purchase them, at least 32 units will enable you to hire a Property Management Company and do the daily operations.

This has enabled me to get started on the research side. 

In many ways BP enables the "I read three articles this week & watch HGTV, so now I'm a RE investor!"

That will give you a little more wiggle room and potentially enable you to pull out all of your capital at refi.

@Marcus Auerbach I would like to be a broker ASAP for business-enabling purposes.

  :)That being said, I use both the Honeywell WiFi enabled thermostat and Nests at my properties. 

I also had heard larger investors criticize common techniques used by mom and pop investors such as investing locally and self managing.In the end I found out that mom and pop investors and the techniques they use are not bad and they enabled me to invest and make money even though I didn’t start off wealthy.