Why look for a partnership when you could invest capital into one of many reputable syndicators? 

That being the case I'd invest the 100k with one or two of the top syndicators here on the site.

I wouldn't get into any partnerships, joint ventures, lending or any such thing until you get a feel for your tolerance for risk and whether you want active or passive investing.

I've used hard money lenders for short term lending and paid them all back properly.

We syndicated the equity raise.

I have a single family I just closed on to house hack back in December and again I only have about 20k to put towards a flip.A local investing group has meetups and with an investment of a few grad they say they will plug you in with wholesalers, and contractors and lend an ear to compete the flip does that sound like Something any of you would do for a first flip.

On the downpayment front, do you have a family member who could lend you the money?  

I have good credit.How do lenders decide how much they will lend?

He said that this way, we could secure 20 homes using conventional lending this way instead of 10. 10 in the person with the higher score's name first while the other builds their credit back and then switch.Is this a common strategy? 

I would like to know how to acquire, learn about lending, financing, set up a system of how to eventually create cash flow from these buildings.