Generally, the more you leverage, the higher your ROI will be.

Should I even try to leverage my money or cash purchase?"

It sounds like a phenomenal organization that could be a good option for the future, however at this time I didn't feel it was the right thing for me.

It takes me gobs of time each year to do all my data entry, I'd love to hire a fantastic person to leverage my time, never bothered costing it out...figured that if I had to ask I couldn't afford it.  

Being that this was a skill that others lacked, I was able to leverage this and sell my services.

The more "traditional" purchasing of a turnkey-type property means you need to keep coming up with more cash since its unlikely you can do 100% financing.One of the aspects that is glossed over is the part of real estate leveraging where you get a property free and clear in 30yr or less basically for free. 

I would suggest leveraging realtor.com as a "zillow-like" service as realtor.com is basically a cumulative MLS for every on-market listing in the country (with only data not available to the public filtered out). 

If it's a larger organization, feel free to inquire about their different staff qualifications.2.

This allows you to do more deals, because you can leverage OPM (other people's money). 

There are several ways that you can go about it, but one of the more common ones is for the private lender to clone a hard money loan structure, whereby the interest rate and leverage would match that of a hard money loan.