I didn't come from money so know one really explain to me how to put this together for myself.

Hi I’m interested in a vacant property and know I can look up the name on tax records but won’t necessarily be where I can contact the property owners.thanks in advance.

It amazes me nowadays how people will throw money into a market and not spend any time in it(pre purchase) then wonder why it didn't work out.we literally purchased our second stilt house by walking up our stairway and the owner (of our now second str there) was walking up there stairs and we struck up a conversation and purchased it off market.My advice, allocate some of your investment funds to knock on doors and hang in the area you buying- its priceless.

What would happen if your investors choose to leave their money in, would the capital amount just go up?

Get your DTI down by pulling cash out of an investment and paying taxes OR paying more for a bridge loan. 

I was broke, just wrote a $1600 check to get out of my lease, and had to spend the money to move across the country.

In essence they want to lease your house, and then re-lease it to someone else for more money than you are leasing it to them for - keeping the difference for themselves.  

So many PMs now try to work both sides of the transactions to make more money and this can hurt you.3.

If you bought a 2-family and started renting both sides, when one tenant leaves, you could choose to move in and then house hack and refinance at that time and get money out and buy a second property.

My husband and I are looking to buy our first ever real estate investment out of state (we live and rent in NYC. we do not want to buy here due to high cost of properties and high tax rates).