Another options appears to be to buy a bond.

You can advertise for credibility as licensed, finger printed, and bonded.

They felt more like companies I was cutting my teeth on, and learning the basics of building and running a company, managing people and processes.

Before getting too guru crazy better investigate the surrounding issues.Amounts charged on cards will play on other issues, it can be done and you can sink really fast doing it too.Buy E bonds instead you won't need a truck for the coins.

If these tests are legally approved, syndicators should continue to evaluate and understand their investors' financial positions prior to bringing them into a deal.Syndi Syndications are illiquid compared to stocks or bonds, not compared to traditional RE

10Y treasury bond yields?

I’m looking to make in the next 3-6 months, I currently have a lot of my capital in a short term bond ETF

Those, class D in particular can be too much to cut your teeth on.If you are in middle/upper income and in class A/B areas then, assuming you have time/desire it is a different story.Also like @JD Martin we found local management blows and that is why we started our own company for both our own investments as well as help solve a market problem.  

We had a huge shift up in the bond market today so hopefully you can take advantage of that and lock today although I still don't see anything close to 6% on the 30 year unless you are coming in with a large down payment and/or paying points. 

As easy as this sounds, it's not simple and usually like pulling teeth.