And quite frankly, I doubt whether you can 'google' my advice, which is the product of 40 years of success in residential, commercial, investment real estate, trust deeds, private loans, and syndications.

I found vocab and math to be the most essential.

One, if you are buying turnkey, visit with your turnkey provider and see the product they are putting out.

I put down 25%, then leverage each one to get as many as 4 properties...each worth 100k (this would essentially spend all 100k cash).As a second option, lets say I choose to put all 100k cash directly into a 100k property.

Essentially you are buying the business from him, as long as there is nothing in writing that states that if he sells the business that agreement becomes null and void, you should be fine with it. have a lawyer check over any agreements on that before you purchase it.

Hard money lenders and private lenders are essentially the same idea.

I also agree that some of these "gurus" make their living off of selling products and selling coaching.  

Often the large banks have delays as well.A loan product I have to use often in my market due to its competitiveness is using a loan where the borrower goes through the full underwriting process before making offers.

Successes do not happen overnight and it is essential to evolve.  

In every case it just made so much sense to do what I did - and the end product was so much better than before - that the investment was worth it.