Have you done a member search on this site @Lisa Miller?

So I am brand new to the whole investment game.

I thought that Poker and Real Estate Investing are very different things: poker is by nature a very unstable, zero-sum game.

Right now both countries sit a standstill in a game of chicken to see who blinks first.

there is a publication called Scottsman guide.. this will list a lot of the top lenders.keep in mind HML want to see some experience and skin in the game to get decent rates. 

Like other types of real estate investing, it's a numbers game.

I was also planning to put in a coin laundry room on-site so the electric bill will go up even higher.  

Any sites or files would be greatly appreciated.

I've been able to save up about $10k and I'm looking to get a game plan going forward in my real estate investing career. 

It's all coming together quite nicely, and thanks to all the great insight from this site and from many books, my standards for cash flow have gotten extremely high, and we're killing it on our COC for the most recent three properties.Where we are now is...we just got a very nice cash payout from some complicated circumstances surrounding my wife's company being bought out and all retained employees getting huge retention bonuses.