Mentors are generally people you have a relationship with who teach you free-of-charge, with the intent of helping someone less experienced achieve success.

Kyle Hipp's advice for 15 year loans is excellent.

The appraisal institute courses are usually high quality but also a pretty expensive.I am reading Marty Boardman's book about flipping houses and it is an excellent overview of the process.

Even when you do it right, you're not placing general ads, at least not under the current regulations.I would start by developing relationships with friends and family who trust your experience.

I am looking to network with real estate professionals such as yourself to build a relationship that will enable me to help you sell houses to real estate investors.

This would give you an opportunity to form some relationships and get the lay of the land.You’re not specific about your real estate interests, but in my view, you could shelter your RE profits before tax in the 401k and build a large passive note and loan portfolio.

Someone with whom you have a relationship and who is willing to mentor you given the relationship;2.

Because the financing is coming from us personally and not through the LLC this is a crack in the veil of the corporation.We are finding it much harder to find commercial financing since this is our first property and we do not have a track record of success.We both have excellent credit and a good amount of cash on hand.

@Brittney Taylor Forgive me for piling on, but @Kyle J. and @Joshua Dorkin have given you excellent -- and critically important -- advice.

However managing those properties might give you some leverage but you would need some good relationship with a lender.