Or see if you can get one of those home improvement shows to remodel it for you for residential use.  

, well no but it will greatly improve your success rate. yes you can do seller financing but most of them would want to see your credit report and will most likely not give you favorable rates. seller financing is harder to come by these days as it is mostly due to cash buyers. can you do a rent to own or a sublet lease, sure you can. but again, most will want to see a credit report before leasing, at least that's how it is in NYC. no one on here is trying to discourage you from fulfilling your dreams and no one is trying to give you an easy answer. were all here to share our thoughts an opinions to benefit one another.

I would like to have help finding properties (web pages or other strategies to find them) , help making a portfolio to show a bank when i find a good deal, access to banks and places that offer money for flips, and someone to review/remind me of things i might forget being new to investing.

As Im not a realtor and have no realtor representing me, how do i gain access to seller (if at all possible even)?

I am assessing a deal for a 2 unit building.A commercial space on the bottom and residential on top.I am confident of improvement costs and my eventual cash flow.Regarding assessing the value of the deal.Normally, I would simply divide my cash flow (which includes mortgage payments) by the down payment to get a return.However, because of the condition of the building and the better deal I can get I plan on buying the property cash then improving it and then refinancing to get most of my cash back.My big question is that going all cash and planning on a refinance is riskier than mortgaging upfront and only risking your down payment.But I am not sure how to calculate this risk.(1)What are some risks to my cash that is tied up before I refinance?

Pretty much it is about using public information from county's around the US to gain access to the tax delinquency lists that County's provide.

I used to live there & is hard to see how those neighborhoods are going to improve.

I'm excited to announce that we have improved our search experience to make it easier to find what you're looking for! 

So review the lease but - if there is no such clause - you won't be able to increase the rent during the term of the lease unless the tenant agrees to it (which they might if you were going to do some upgrades/improvements but probably wouldn't otherwise).

There are ways we MAY be impacted but we won't know for sure until the final bill is locked in.Regardless, I think it will be an improvement for the overall economy which will impact us all in positive ways.