Perhaps you could recommend any investors that could facilitate this transaction.For the past three years I've successfully studied & been involved with over 400 various industries as a designer & marketing consultant.Currently, everywhere you look people are buying and flipping real estate.It seems everyone is buying a home, fixing it up a little, and selling it almost immediately for a sizeable profit.We read about it in newspapers, online, and there were even television shows based on flipping houses.The flipping real estate business model works great.But here’s the good news for you . . .that same business model works in many other areas.You can flip non real estate assets just as easily, maybe easier than flipping houses.You can also use leveraged buy out techniques to alternatively buy & hold already existing businesses similar to properties also.Through the use of transactional funding I've realized that I could borrow a $250,000 swing loan from a bank, give that to the seller in morning.That would make the business mine.Then in the afternoon I could take all the assets that are in the business that I just bought and raise $360,000 (80% of $440,0000) the same day from an asset-based lender.Then I could take $250,000 of the $360,000 and instantly repay the transactional loan.Then, I'll have a $110,000 cash windfall in my bank account, which I could now use to run the business and pay myself a big bonus.The double escrow basically enables someone to do this: I never touch the $250,000 of the down payment monies put into escrow by the lender.The asset-based lender never hands methe $360,000 check. 

Have you acquired all 17 properties without using any refinancing techniques?  

Suggest you get your deal under contract first subject to a study period of 20 banking days to do your inspection and get your financing lined up.Your offer should be a little creative; ask for seller subordinated financing, offer equity kicker when property sells; this increases the owner's financing percentage return (important you know how to calculate the return)  ---- numbers and percentages are a great motivational technique. 

Use short sale techniques, particularly when there are multiple liens against the property (1st, 2nd, 3rd's, etc)

I used yard signs and classified ads to generate leads, with minimal success.I'm seeking advice from the group:What are some successful marketing techniques that you have used to generate first time homebuyer leads?

-I saw on some contracts it's there, but any other tailored for California did not have it in there, any feedback is appreciated.

Programs like TurboTax are fine for that, and are highly tailored to do this sort of return.

What you wont learn from Kiosaki is the technique that real estate investors use. 

Or use more creative techniques like seller financing. 

A lot of investors/property managers think they can apply the same techniques that they've used on a typical rental to a student rental, but it can't be done succesfully and they're normally the ones stating that student rentals are harder to manage or there's more damage.