Those savings will be your seed capital when you're ready for the first deal.

How did you avoid tieing too much of your seed money up during that first deal? 

You can use that seed money to hopefully get going on a house that's in more rent ready condition. 

Due to the debt from a previous divorce I'm still digging out from, I'm unable to bring capital to the table at this time and had thought I'd just be a helpful Realtor until I'd built my own seed money after squashing my debt.

My father recently gave me a property and i want to use it to start investing in more properties this particular property needs roughly $5,000 in upgrades to fetch a $1,000 per month.Should I refi the property in six months and use that money as Seed money to acquire more properties?

@Duriel TaylorPlease follow up to this post after your meeting, im curious.If you buy right and the seller leaves enough equity in the property, I could how you could refi out to pay seller and get your seed money back.

I had to till up the area and re-seed it to get grass in that area again.

(REMEMBER THIS ALWAYS) You have greatness in you,(YOU ARE ALREADY CREATE LIKE THIS< WITH GREATNESS)  just like a seed. ( a seed) doesn't say I am just a seed, a seed has potential inside, it just needs the correct environment and timing and condition to become GREAT and ABLE to create fruit, It needs, Soil, Water, and correct temperature to grow (and time) .

I believe you have just enough seed capital to solicit equity from an equity investor from privatemoneygoldmines.com.

@Alyssa GonzalezThere's a book I like that is not about real estate but it's still extremely useful IMO:Financial Freedom by Grant SabatierLot's of great ideas in there on how to hack your life to maximize savings (which you'll need for your seed capital).After that, there's some great real estate books to read.