Keep in mind however that a seller can instruct their agent to only present offers to them that are at or over a certain price. 

Instructions on what to do if something goes wrong.

“We are committed to helping families affected by the virus and we are instructing Servicers to work with borrowers who are unable to make their mortgage payments to ensure they are evaluated for a forbearance plan or other appropriate assistance,” added Kevin Palmer, senior vice president of Single-Family portfolio management at Freddie Mac.

One reason is, that in order to do a remote deal you have to instruct buyers, sellers, title companies, agents, property visits, etc blindly.

But 'simple' in no way means 'easy'.There are many hundreds of ways for a hard-working entrepreneur to go into business for him or herself.

As such, I think Josh should change the instructions to read as follows:"Prove your human and/or not an idiot."

The other a serial entrepreneur who ran the largest wine concern in the US and took it public.One owned everything in cash period and had no debt the serial entrepreneur had all sorts of deals going and believed in debt and financing but that I am sure because of his background running public companies.In our business we borrowed from banks ( credit facilities) to loan to those that needed MHL's and we made the spread which as you know is pretty nice, but even those facilities required us to have 20% of our own capital in each loan.So the capital structure of each HML I made was our strip of capital ( cash) at 20% banks at 80% but with the bank never being more than 56% of appraised value. if the loans were higher LTV we needed more cash.So at the end of the day I think it depends on what your doing how big you are and of course your deal flow..As I move forward loaning money I require CASH into each deal I do with very few exceptions.So combination of cash and OPM seems to be the right formula..

I'm with Jean - never occurred to me to be an entrepreneur until my 30's - darn it!!

I suggest you call local brokers and speak to agents or brokers there, tell them you're seeking a good real estate school, they can tell you their opinions.I also suggest you do classroom courses, not an internet instruction program even if you can chat and ask questions individually.An issue with "chat" classes, IMO.

Manage your money well, be an entrepreneur, pray, tithe, share.