I'm pretty new to the game as well, but I might be able to give some leads on what you're looking for.With you being a Real Estate Investor, that puts you into a different category than a normal everyday home buyer that Realtors are used to dealing with. 

You also have the Hard Money loan route if you absolutely must move forward with the deal.If your family has money, why not use that monies to fix your credit and in turn you can pay them back when you run into a good deal or share profits on a good deal.Cash is king but like in the game of chess, credit represents a Queen which is the most powerful asset you can have in this game called RE.

At some point, you do have to adjust your game plan to reflect on the competition.  

Hello, my name is Jessica and I'm just now starting out in the resl-estate/investment property game.

Just watched it💥 thick skin with no weak game🤯🥶‼️

You need capital for playing the real estate game.

My background is in software engineering and have worked for some amazing companies over the past 15 years or so of my career. 

Here's how you can do that...Acquire Furnished PropertiesWhen you are in the property search phase and you are using the various platforms and software to find your next deal.

The software we use calculates it for us when we input the bill. 

It's all a guessing game, but it is a fact that cash flow is good there.Avoid the smaller/heavily depressed towns like Shenandoah.