I plan to leverage my experience as a online marketer and tech entrepreneur to help me discover new deals using creative approaches.  

They end up being 100%+ leveraged based on the initial selling price and cash investment.  

Submitting a backup offer for the agent to "hold on to" seems to me would only give leverage to the agent against the current buyer.

I deal in a sunset technology in the semiconductor industry.

Might be hard to make much cash flow depending on your leverage though.

If you have 1st, last and security of at least 1 month you have leverage since you are holding them.In my area it isn't that easy to rent mid month so I'd be looking at the 1st as when I could get someone in there if I had good candidates.

I would encourage you to keep reading and interacting here on BiggerPockets to learn and leverage all the experience we have in this community.

I guess I should have asked my question a little differently, though i may still garner the same response.Is there a best practice for leveraging the equity in my existing property to further grow my real estate investment portfolio?

I am weighing the possibilities of : 1) Using a loan from the PM Lender against say 50% (maybe more) of price of the properties I hold in the SDIRA, in order to further leverage my own SDIRA funds into other properties, which the PM lender would likely help fund also.

I am an experienced flipper having been in RE since '04 and rehabbing full time since 2010.In order to leverage the experience and time that I have, I am now looking for equity partners who are willing to fund the deal/rehab costs 100%.