What I meant to say was, at the seminar, there were quite a few guest speakers who were students in the program.

Does any body use this program.

I posted this in the wrong spot first .is anybody using this program to find tenants.

The added benefit of this process is that you can also have your attorney sign the public records as "Nominee Trustee" before assigning yourself as the "Trustee" once the Trust has been established.

There's also a public version of the MLS, realtracs.com, but it's not nearly as robust as the actual MLS. 

My first house was bought through FHA first time homebuyers program, i then got the CHENOA down payment program and had the sellers pay all closing costs. 

The biggest problem I see is that the second house is one with which we would want to take advantage of the FHA 203K program and I have heard that you can only use the FHA loan for the purchase of your FIRST property, and by the time we finally go under contract on that one, we'll potentially already have purchased our "first home". 

 You need to:  A) Know thyself  B) Develop an understanding of what REIT's are and factors that effect their pricing  C) Develop an understanding of where you're going to invest if you buy physical propertyFor this comment Ill be talking about publicly traded REIT's as they're available to everyone through a brokerage account.

I have seen many posts suggesting finding an “investor savvy realtor” and stating that there is a difference between realtors who service the general public and those who service investors.

Freddy Mac has a program called Home possible that you might be able to use for a conventional loan with 5% down.