Now I am looking to leverage myself into some buy and hold multifamily or possibly SFRs.

:I was talking more about the process of how to best leverage our money and financing.

I am undecided as to how to best leverage the $45,000.One scenario - use private money (12-18 months) instead of using $45,000 to purchase my parents townhouse currently worth $190k, I would offer them $140,000 and while I wont make any money with my parents living in the house, the equity will give me the opportunity to withdraw funds in the next 12 months.

If you are looking for rental investment, well then 90% of the work is making sure you have appropriate leverage and making sure the strategy works, so it doesn't really matter when/where you go; only how much money you can make!

In order to leverage a relationship with a realtor as a wholesaler you need to: * Develop a good rapport.Rapport simply means the "relationship between persons".

@Raj ParwaniWhen performing analysis for BRRRR, you have to make sure the numbers still work with leverage.

Though your leverage is reasonable at 70%, your words indicate that your cash flow is not quite strong enough to comfortably endure decreases in rent.  

I am sure that Auction.com is getting paid for their service and that is why they add them to their marketing @Wayne Brooks, it is just another stream of revenue for auction.com leveraging the existing platform that they have already built.I have also seen houses lately hit auction.com barely two months past the sheriff sale (now as REOs), but they are pre mls and auction.com does not charge a buyers fee (no co-broker involved), I have bid on a number of those (usually tracked by me from the pre foreclosure stage), but never overpay so someone always outbids me lately on these open platform auction sites.Good Luck to you!!!

My question: should I put a large sum of cash in my LLC, then try to get a loan for the first rental that way (I'm a fan of leveraging vs. cash)? 

Say you just bought a 75 unit for 1.5M with 80% leverage (300k down) and then you leverage the LOC to rehab the property for 900k and keep another 350k on the side in case something comes up.