It may be handy to separate business and personal contact info even if you use something like google voice and have it ring your personal cell.A FL expert may chime in here, but some states have security deposit rules, so you may need a separe bank account for those...Good luck!

Go back and review these three podcasts from Will Barnard.  

Three questions…They have a decent credit score, about 40k cash in the bank but not the 25% (125k) for a down payment.

Hello everybody okay my name is Jennifer and I've always loved real estate this year my husband and I went to a workshop a three-day seminar about real estate investing and I have to say I love everything about it but can you share with me how you went out and did your first deal or found your motivated seller???

This is for three 4-family units (flats with 2bd 1ba each) in a C- area.

If the buyers feel like they should get more money, they can do one of three things:1) re-negotiate with you to amend your original contract2) walk away from the closing table and refuse to sign (basically bringing the deal to a halt)3) suck it up and sign.I can't imagine a closing attorney would hold money back for any reason, unless he had it in writing and signatures from both parties that money was to be held back... that seems beyond me. 

You can ring peoples doorbell and ask them. 

I am a former loan officer , but currently working in the food and beverage industry, I have read about the topic for the past three months.

Loans trade in one of three manners:  (1) Par = 100% of Unpaid Principal Balance ("UPB"); (2) Premium = more than 100% of UPB and (3) Discount = less than 100% of UPB.  

@Jason Steiner if I had to do it all over again I would have maximized my conventional loans by purchasing nothing but fourplexes for my first three investment properties.