If you get a full time job out of college with a contracted salaries you can most likely buy an investment property through traditional financing.

Buy and hold MFH is my strategy.After a few months I found a property which would meet my requirement of 15% CCR with traditional financing.

Many of which is already found in traditional rental agreements.

I currently use hard money to buy and flip value add properties, along with my traditional brokerage services.

Traditionally a mentor is not a paid position and good investors  dont sell good leads. 

Conversely, if one's focus is rehabbing/flipping is it vital to be available during more traditional "business hours" to visit your projects, and work more quickly with industry professionals (contractors, lenders, etc...) 

It's hard to find a fund that isn't a REIT to get involved on a larger scale unless you are able to put the downpayment on a piece of property there, Traditionally only the large hedge funds and pensions that have been involved in this extremely unsexy (yet, cash flow liquid!)

In all, we've found the returns to be great and I think it's probably a lot easier than renting it to a traditional tenant.

Under a traditional lump-sum contract, the owner agrees to pay the developer to complete a project that is built to the owner's specifications.

We know it makes for a slow start, but we don't have the traditional 20% down nor the reserves to take on reno.