From my perspective, those who are successful starting out in this arena do well not because they planned the process via asking BP members how to do it or paying some unknown commodity crazy $ for training, or even investing in software before a deal is done -- heavens NO -- but because they actually had the balls to CLOSE a single (good?

I spoke with a traditional lender the other day from Total Mortgage who said it would be difficult for me to get any kind of financing outside of a traditional 20-25% down investment loan, because I don't have a credible reason to be buying another multi-family outside of investing purposes.What is the simplest way to make a second purchase utilizing the 203k loan program without running into issues in underwriting? 

Most use their own programs to determine the risk of a property vs using the FEMA flood zone. 

If you don't have money to pay them to train you. 

I have a hard time processing that, again I think just a weakness of the why I've been trained to think. 

@Bradley DoschI strongly agree firm believer is a must , the process it’s the training to the real state 

A lot of those offer great training resources.

I dont know of any programs for that, but all you need is the cloud or drop box and create file folders with photos and perhaps excel files listing each line item you used.

What I found while training 20 agents is that I have noticed most agents do not know how to use the "keywords" or any of the good tools. 

Depending on your occupation, I know of homes for heroes has these programs.