I can offer advice on market, vendors and direct lending. 

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.We are only able to get 150k-175k in mortgage the rest we have to put up in cash.

You can also reach out to them for help directly. 

I'd say if you find an experienced partner in the field and want to start directly into a deal yourself go for it, but if you'd like to learn from others, I think passively investing and learning while looking for deals (which are hard to come across the days) also is a smart strategy. 

How does it compare to direct mail and cold calling?

I know that was a ton of questions, but I appreciate any help you could offer either in answering or pointing me in the right direction. 

Here is my situation, I started investing last August when I got 1 house, this month I am buying three houses.  All of these so far have been houses with tenants already in place and I am using a property manager. Thi...

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Once again, thanks all for pointing me in the right direction.