When I am asked about this today, I point out that the Memphis populace may have a natural pre-disposition towards renting single family housing rather than the upward mobility of owning and buying like you might find elsewhere since it is estimated that 50% of the population rents their housing.  

Loans are a whole new animal, but I am determined to make the whole process second nature!

But if I hadn't known his goals, it would have been difficult to have suggested a relevant solution like seller financing to him.One last thought: they may say that they don't have the willingness to provide seller financing, but if you show them the alternatives (which might not be as good), and the benefits (which can be fairly attractive), they may change their mind.

The transient nature of military gives you some great advantages.

I would suggest you can use the alternate options short term financing which is - credit card cash advances, HELOC or hard money lenders.

Nothing has changed.Your choices include:Pulling files yourself and entering the data in a database or Excel filePaying someone else to do the above for youFind a data list provider An alternative to looking for probates is to market for other characteristics and deal with the probates as they come.

Rather, it is the underlying assets, liabilities and character & experience of the owners combined with the nature of the business enterprise and environment that define a company. 

I'm very unorganized by nature so I'm looking for whatever is most simple to implement so I don't get overwhelmed

The 'better' alternative is as @andy points out  to borrow from an independent party, with recorded security interest, proof of loan term compliance... all in an arm's length transaction.

So I brought up fix and flips, which she was a little more cautiously open to due to the "short term" nature of owning the property and not dealing with tenants.