Or in other words, if I intend to live in the property.I plan to buy a multi-family property.

I've been buying houses cash in Ft Smith, I may be interested in buying yours.

I am looking to buy an existing RV, Boat, and Truck Storage business in the Tampa, St Pete, Clearwater Florida area.

Sell that bad boy and either put the cash in the new house or buy some other investment properties that make sense. 

Savoy investors use them for additional fire power when buying deals.

I currently have a full-time career as a senior engineer in the aerospace industry, but I’ve always been interested in real estate, and I view REI as a way to supplement my future retirement.I’m interested in initially doing fix and flips to build up capital for buy and hold investments in multi-family properties, and I have about $200K in home equity that I can leverage to get started.

However, in residential I buy everything direct to seller. 

If your home is in a solid area and you can hold onto it while having even some cash flow, I would usually pick that option.From the experience I have seen with my dad and holding properties long term and conversations I've have with older investors is that if you hold onto RE, you will usually be happy you did so.Most investors say: I never really regretted buying, but I have regretted selling. 

Tom Henderson puts out a good book ...you can get either hard copy or pdf......The challenge with most of this seems to be FINDING notes to buy from private sellers. 

We are interested in buying our first rental OR flip.