Are you currently looking refinance or acquire?

I would pull the 500K, to then monetize through yielded interest bearing markets, then pledge those yields to acquire the purchase power for the planned various down payments  

He talks about how you can purchase a rental property, manage it as a short term rental during the year you acquire it, do a cost segregation study, use those "losses" to significantly reduce your taxable income that year, and then turn the property into a long term rental in the following year. 

Because of the way they are valued, there isn't that much difference in the business plan for profitably acquiring and running these.  

Yes there will be months you will be "down" because you'll be paying to live there but it would be the cost of acquiring the property and will help you start your portfolio sooner rather than later.

Dear all,
I'd like to share a creative finance strategy that I have used to scale to $10.5M of client capital under management and $21M of assets on the books. These assets encompass 33 houses and a $5.5M stake in 20...

Started my journey a year ago started doing some wholesaling and almost a quarter ago "moved" to Cleveland, OH to acquire the first property as an investor.

I can't vouch for it, but the hosts of the Rookie podcast wrote a book about partnerships that may be worth reading before you take on a partner: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Estate-Partnerships-Acquire-Achi...

Yes, I've closed on 4, rehabbed them, and they are all rented with tenants in place :)OK, and for these deals, I assume you use your own funds to acquire and rehab.With private money, you're now substituting some individual's funds for your own.However, unlike when it was just your money, you'll need to proceed with extreme caution to make certain your lenders are well protected if/when things don't go as planned.Private lending is its own whole profession.

I purchased my first rental single-family home in North Carolina, which quickly introduced me to the benefits of passive income.Encouraged by this initial success, I acquired a duplex in Columbus, Ohio, followed by a townhouse and another single-family home in North Carolina, all within a span of a few months.