At the moment I'm reading a few books to try and educate myself as much as possible

I am 38 years old and have three beautiful daughters age 15, 10 and 4.

As it is, I have one fourplex in Killeen at the moment (FHA financed, I had already used both VAs on single families).I'm an agent in the area, and multi-families are pretty hot right now.  

As of the moment we have not made any offers or deals, because were trying to see which home best suits us to start our first flip.

I have been looking for private money and have some people who will be able to do something in the future but not at the moment.

The second problem was that the moment you declined the counter offer - this property was immediately put under contract with someone else. 

I take ugly houses and make them beautiful.

I do not have the income or the capital to pay the  conventional loan payments on a $600,000 property at the moment and would like to use interest only/partly amortized so that it is more affordable for me until I can afford to pay for a regular conventional loan. 

I live with my family and have close to no expenses at the moment and no plans to move out any time soon, which I realize puts me at an advantage so I would like to get into REI (or any form of investing really) to maximize my advantage.To start, I notice there's a lot of information everywhere on this website and on others, and I'm just a little clueless on where to start.

Knocking on the door is VERY effective.And/or, take a moment to write a hand written letter:I am (My Husband and I are, My Family is, etc.)