Personally, I use our company's app as it's the fastest I have found, now that doesn't give me FSBOs and I think that Zillow is still the biggest platform used for FSBOs. 

@Laurie Cundiff For investing in a traditional solo 401(k) you are deferring income taxes to a future year (either at a higher or lower tax bracket) and you are avoiding income taxes and depreciation recapture upon the sale. 

Sub2 stuck out but they might get spooked since they are traditional, private people - “don’t tread on me” navy veteran.My husband, being a veteran, thinks sub2 is wrong approach and would prefer using financing.

If the basement floor is really slanted, I'll build level platforms out of wood. 

I called someone today who wants to sell his house off market, but the price he wants is too high to make sense for a traditional investment property.

Free advice is worth what you pay for it, but you need to hit the pavement, network with people, and sell yourself, if you aren't applying to a traditional defined program.

I am very new to real estate and BiggerPockets platform.

If none of that works, you'll have to get super creative and step outside the realm of "traditional financing."

Another way to prepare is take out a traditional mortgage on the property so that you 1. know what the monthly payment will be with certainty and 2. 100% will have access to the cash.

->PropMgmtLLC - separate traditional single member LLC member managed by me, has its own EIN and bank account, has a contract with Cell1, Cell2 and handles all aspects of property management for property1 and proerty2, sends monthly invoice to Cell1, Cell2 and charges a $50/month management fee for each property.