Establish credibility, promote the deal and then offer the opportunity to others. 

Maybe more so focus on getting promoted in any department that you work to where you manage people under you and then those skills will translate into managing tenants and employees as your own business grows.

@Mike Burke We're not allowed to do anything that resembles self-promotion on the forums, but I'll PM you.

How are you going to promote it? 

I have to be careful, I don't want to come across as self promoting.

Also, if dealing with just the owner, how do I go about doing a title search for O&E, taxes, liens etc and making it contingent, would there be an escrow we can go through?

I added value by promoting it to a hungry investor.

the training as an aside.. private money lenders are NOT looking for newbies generally and are not sitting at home waiting for a guru to call and say they have a new student.you can simply talk to your local HML which is who you would use anyway if you need capital.as for learning the business there are a myrid of ways to do that.you can go to e bay and buy any and all guru course and videos for pennies... spend a few hundred on those and sift through the information.there is just so much hype that people can go from not knowing anything about real estate to be financially independent in a few short months.. and folks simply don't know what they don't know this is a long game a very long game.. and depending on were your living and working it can be very very difficult without substantial cash already.. areas of the North east and mid west you can deal in SFR's like used cars because they sell for that. if your west coast based.. much tougher

@Randy E.

I checked one of the calculator using a method Brandon himself promoted before the calculators and that method found the calculator to be wrong too.