I've read so many  posts lately and honestly a lot of them are intimidating but I'm hoping to gain the knowledge and wisdom through more reading and with your guidance.one "problem" that we are running into are how to fund real estate property.

I'm looking into current financing I can get with a local portfolio lender, but I can imagine very soon that I'll be wanting to manage multiple flips at the same time, but will run into the problem of not being able to get another loan personally. 

We have had people run the commission through work before, and they pay 100% of it back to the employee (again since they don't care about the residential side of agency).

Even purchasing a "performing" first lien you run the risk of that loan falling into default since all loans have a risk of default.  

Chances are the ability to get the funds out to do the next deal and capitalize a bit more is probably better for our goals in the long run. 

There's a BP get together group that meets once a month, you can attend a TREIA West event (near Cary), a TREIA main event, TREIA subgroup for newbies which Tim Masters runs....Triangle Deal Maker Sessions usually meets the first Monday of the month (it's the second Monday in September because of Labor Day)....

My concerns would include 1) crime, 2) proximity of other buildings you don't control, 3) (local) apartment supply analysis, 4) scope of capital requirements, 5) rehab grants/funding, if any, available 6) loss run report @Patrick Madigan I am in the Fuquay area for about a week and would take you up on visiting the property if this Friday or Monday next week....

I bet your local McDonald's isn't running on a MTM lease.

It is a pre-manufactured, and much "beefier" (Lower left photo) support system designed to provide additional vertical and horizontal resistance in wind, snow, and seismic zones for which the design criteria has been pre-approved and stamped by an engineer.

My point here is I have no idea how to run a screening process and what all I need to do before I accept tenants.