Look for ways to add rooms  or square footage on cash purchases that are valuable enough to be refinanced after rehab.4.

Especially during these uncertain times when some potential tenants may be apprehensive to come to a showing this has been a very valuable tool in our arsenal to make sure we keep low vacancies.If you can not afford the matterport camera ( we sure did not have that in the budget ), you can get a Theta V for a reasonable price and it works very well.

@Rob ZabelGenerally, the license is valuable for access to the mls.

My take is financing is a tool within real estate, a valuable tool, but a tool nonetheless. 

I have an idea of some of the questions I want to ask right off the bat, but I was wondering what you guys usually ask.I plan to ask about the current tenants, the seller's reason for selling, condition of Capex fixtures, what the neighbors are like, etc. and whatever comes up organically during the showing.Anything else that would be valuable to ask?

If you accumulate enough of these properties they become more valuable as a group than individually in total.

When more experienced investors spend a few minutes talking with you, tell them that their comments were valuable... 

An 8 unit with that kind of equity is super valuable & hard to come by... 

I found that reading has helped me a lot but there is nothing as valuable as doing work.

He is a great writer, and it seems to me to be a very valuable book though I have yet to implement it.