I am hesitant to pull the trigger due to my lack of knowledge on funding sources.

Your bookkeeping system can tag income and expenses with a property ID or use subaccounts to keep track of income and expenses by property.Since you are a sole proprietor, there is no issue with co-mingling funds and using the same checking account for both personal and rental activities, but, it is much simpler for record keeping to have a separate checking/savings account for the rentals.I have charged stuff on my personal credit card for my rental properties, because I get "rewards" for my charges.  

I am born and raised right here in South Florida so I'm very familiar with the area.

I just bought the package from grantfundingexpert.orgI know there are grants out there and funding.

It would be great to hear how other investors made/make Hard Money funding work.

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We have reasons to be a C corp (foreign investors etc).I've been looking to get into real-estate investments for a while and have had issues with initial funding.  

Personally I would invest in a fund with an 8%+ preferred return with equity split that pushes the realized return to double digits before I would pay off that debt.

Lastly, the properties I buy, because I am not a big investor or a big fund, are usually outside of a metropolitan area. 

I'm having a very difficult time getting some of the equity out to fund the purchase of a multi-family.