It can be tempting to get the “biggest” parts of the project out of the way first, and although making progress is fantastic, it might not necessarily be the best step at that moment.

Beautifully said James !

I currently rent from a family friend that has some health issues and we pay very little for our rent at $1100 / month covering everything / all utilities, etc, and is in a beautiful place so I am reluctant to leave our place where we live and instead want to farm out this house as an income tax shelter + gain some equity in something.  

I’ve got more time than deals at the moment and don’t feel like I’m in a position to leverage others yet.  

You need to attend open houses of beautifully renovated homes in your area.

We don't have an option for featured mortgage brokers at the moment, but will hopefully have options here in the future for you.

Yeah owner occupy sounds like the best strategy as I don't have that much money to spend at the moment.

At this moment of my life I’m huge on leveraging this job and taking the all the great skill sets enterprise has to offer and finding a way to apply them to my REI journey!

Both are sort of the evil step child of lending at the moment because there isn't much of an appetite for it.

Eventually these people may know more about your buildings and tenants than you do at a given moment.