Sounds like you are staying very active and knocking down deals, so I love to hear that.I actually have a buddy who's putting an elevator in a home in Oceanside and they offered me a 45-day lease while the owner is out of the country.

She was huge in coordinating the transition of these forms to a Pro Membership Benefit.Would the community also like it if I gave a monthly update about all the projects we are working on to improve various parts of the site, memberships, books, etc? 

Some immediate sources are personal funds, community banks, friends and family, hard money lenders, crowdfunding, etc.4.

@Elizabeth B. welcome to REI and the BP community.

Here are the 2 replies I received back from the community development director:The records I reviewed showed it as an existing duplex.

Hello BP Community!

It is great to have you and please feel free to jump in the community - there are certainly great people around here

I'm relatively new to the Bigger Pockets community but I've been a Bigger Pockets fan since the time I listened to my first podcast a couple months ago.

You have come to the right place and welcome to the Bigger Pockets community!

I had posted this in the new member introductions forum but I wasn't sure where it should go so I'm posing here in the starting out forum as well.I've had this idea in my head for a couple years now about buying property and then renting all or part of it out in order to develop an alternative income stream and I just found out about the bigger pockets community a couple of months ago.