If you just send the standard "will buy your house for cash" postcards, or do generic bandit signs, or canned PPC internet leads, you will waste all of your time on crap "leads" that aren't real.

It took me almost 2 years of talking with people and researching to push out our first project.

This also is far to easy to set up Schills you have no clue if the people are real and just working for a fake lender..

Quote from @Robin Simon: Its definitely dependent on a lot of variables, personal situation/risk tolerance, etc.But high-level, I would say that there can certainly be a balance - sometimes people forget that when using hard money or any sort of financing, for some reason you need to "MAX out leverage" - i.e. do a 100% financing for a flip or a max cash-out refinance etc..However, most hard money lenders would be totally willing to do a lower leverage loan (and would probably prefer it) such as 50% or 60% LTC instead of the usual max amount. 

The possibility of loosing your house is enough incentive to get people to pay.

I think great to give people a book to read to answer their questions.The truth is if you REALLY want to get involved in something get ready to LEARN.If you can't be bothered to read a book for a week, you're not ready to invest.

I believe you can set your name in TurboTenant to whatever you want and many people use TurboTenant as an LLC name.

These are good questions for a CPA, not random internet people.

For context, my rent will just cover my PITI for my primary, nothing more--interest rate is 6.3% on a 300k home (so side question, are other people also just getting PITI covered by rent in North Dallas single-family homes, or am I just bad at this??

*One quirk that made financing more complicated: the banks got nervous when they saw that just two people (the investors I mentioned earlier) own more than half of the 48 units, and wanted a big down payment.