there are ways around credit checks, but you pay an even higher premium to do so. best bet imo is to partner with someone as a passive investor while you learn comm real estate and boost your credit score.

That means listing by mid-July if possible.The market is such a hot seller's market right now that the timing won't matter as much as it would in a buyer's market, but it's still a good practice.The key to acquiring properties in this crazy market is to jump on them instantly. 

The alternative is to sell my current residence, use some of those funds plus my current savings to buy a rental property + new residence.

The only suggestion I have is to go in and talk to someone face to face.

None of this is to say that the drawbacks are unimportant.

The goal is to find situations where both you and the broker can add value to your respective businesses. 

My long term dream plan is to start with multi-family rental properties, as that grows I would like to help cut costs by maybe starting my own property management company, also do syndicated deals, set up a real estate brokerage, really just in general ways that I can keep expanding is I grow into multiple areas and different businesses the real estate has to offer. 

My business plan is to keep long term tenants. 

Before offering on this place, I looked at 15 in person after god knows how many online.The only words of wisdom I can offer is to not give up and be prepared to turn in an offer the moment you find a “deal”.

What has worked best for me is to leave the excess in the account, take a spread sheet and divide it up into columns.