As for pets: we just charge pet security deposit of an additional $150, but then $15-25 per pet per month depending on size...There is definitely more than one way to skin a cat.  

There too, while many of these crowdfunding sites can assist in your equity raise, they are going to need some "skin in the game" and a track record.  

Actually I did initially have difficulty finding a lender who would not only loan for properties below $50k (Most banks use that number for their lowest amount that I've found), but also it was difficult to find a lender who'd do loans that low, AND do them as commercial loans.  

What were the difficulties you ran into and how did you solve them?

You can shear a sheep many times; you can skin him only once.  

But in any case please don't take someones word for it on some forum when they have no skin in the game.

I think that it is easy to find renters in this market, however buying affordable properties may be difficult. I

These are very different strategies and couldn't be farther away from each other on the difficulty of investing scale.

Technical difficulties - including the webinar-host going down right as Brandon started the webinar - made it virtually impossible for anyone to actually watch.

Also, it’s in the same format for every county so it takes the mystery and difficulty out of scrubbing the data once you download it.