Search the forums to find some mortgage brokers in your area and reach out to a few to start learning about the whole process. 

I have been searching trulia, zillow, and realtor.com for a few months now looking for a multi-family house that I can live in and rent out for my first investment property.

That has not worked and I've lost out on a few homes I was very interested in because the agent either didn't get back to me in time, or didn't know the area well to offer solid advice, or didn't want to put in much of an effort other than to send my some automated search result (which I often had already). 

Unfortunately me not being from MA makes this search even more difficult but I guess i'll be giving the city a nice drive as I did for worcester! 

Good evening BP, I have searched all through the wholesale forums, along with the "flipping contracts" discussion topic and put together an 8 step plan to wholesale contracts while Driving for Dollars, from what I learned.

Good morning BP,I have searched all through the wholesale forums, along with the "flipping contracts" discussion topic and put together a 9 step plan to wholesale contracts while Driving for Dollars, from what I learned.

We combined have good incomes but I'm concerned my LLCs will make them think we're too risky (I own 33-55% of four houses and my own house with a renter in my home, all are doing well financially but I ran into this problem of really having to search with getting my own mortgage because they looked at only my percentage of income but all the debt as risk). 

The MLS reports I have from Richmond do not have the tax amounts on them, and a cursory web search has not yielded anything, either.I apologize for my ignorance, but how do taxes work in VA?  

If you're willing to work with a Realtor, you can search for SRES Realtors in your area at sres.org and make them aware of your property.

*search this site using key word "house hack"5-why wouldn't you pull the equity from your house ( or leverage your house) and just by a rental property(paid off in 15 yrs by tenants, building equity for further acquisitions, future appreciation AND sale ) where the numbers will give you a specific profit, and you can retain your anonymity and personal space as a LL?