The tricks, gadgets and gizmos aside --> most banks, hard money and private money is going to want to see at lease 30% of the money come from you.Rich Dad and others will paper over this and offer all sorts of tricks, but that is pretty much whereOne way around this, might be to buy up to a fourplex and LIVE in it.

The trick in my opinion is to get rid of you as the middleman for performing these tasks and use a service like cozy.co where the applicant enters all their information and then you get the report and the background without knowing anything. 

Yes, there may be many risk but thats where I feel BP is so helpful because you can learn the trick and tips to keep risk and headaches at a minimum.

There are a lot of resources and websites that can help with this but for me I found that I'm not interested  in becoming an expert in this area, so I still learn and dabble in this area but I have used a management company from the beginning which because I found a good one has been well worth the small amount of money I've had to pay them, they have been very helpful and patient in the old teaching me  some of the things I need to know about the local markets in real estate tricks.  

The trick, or should I say gamble, is that you find a good person/family to be the tenants.I know Douglas Skipworth and he manages several of my homes and his company has good property management if you want to buy and pay to have the home repaired. 

The trick is balancing the leverage and risk with growth of your portfolio.

The trick is to figure out how to beat the averages.http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2006/snapshots/PL0862000.html

I don't think anyone should be bailed out...I read article after article in which some "poor, misled" home owner says, " I didn't understand the terms and conditions of my loan (or refi), I was tricked blahh, blah blah....."

I say promote tha club and you will find that many seasoned investors will come out of hiding to learn new tricks.

(Ohio has a desciption of what they want on the form area courts interpet it in different ways One of the tricks that have seen is called salting a building.