Note: -the properties are located in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Connecticut-the properties are all financed under conventional loans-most of the loans are purchased as rentals, two are purchased as primaries. 

For one or two properties, I like VacationRentalDesk.com.

And so they can see it before anybody else can, unless ofcourse you go door to door or do intense research on your own to find good deals without real estate license.

@Alana Reynolds yeah, as mentioned above the current loan amount is already over the maximum threshold for this type of thing.  75% LTV and under will get you in the door. 

(Sounds like it is at least one or two years out)

Just my two cents.

There are options for no-seasoning DSCR cash-out refinances, rates may be slightly higher and you may need to have two appraisals done to verify market value if it is significantly higher than 110k.

Two things I wish I'd known when I was first starting out.

I did not, I ended up buying two properties in south city over the last 2 years.

I was going to do that I was must trying to see if people had come up with a certain way around my two downfalls right now.