It's costly and time consuming, but may be your only practical option to sell the property depending on the situation.

So we came across the online tool to farm for properties.

At first, I was looking on the counties online public record but unfortunately I will have to search for individual addresses and after doing some more research I came across that is possible to get a listing through the MRIS.

I have seen online banks that yield 1.5% APY.

3) Say 3 years in I want to refi to a traditional lender from my private note;  is that a typical practice? 

Hello BP community, after hours of education via books, podcasts, and meeting with local investors, I have built my own cashflow spreadsheet and attempted to analyze a random local property on Realtor.com to practice my analysis skills.

When I don't know something I just look it up from reputable sources online and also quite a few of my college roommates work in finance and can get answers on things like Libor nuances for example.

Is there practice exams I can take?

And that would lead to my best suggestion for cutting costs: Let someone else (a mail house or an online outfit like Click2Mail) perform the labor tasks for you.

Any recommendations of courses to do so would be a great help also, I found a few online.