Do this immediately.Learn SEO and constantly work on ranking your website.While you do this, learn about DMM and PPC.This will help you drive traffic to your website (which Google will notice) and you are then focussing on making deals immediately.The goal is to have your website be your main lead generating beast as the leads it generates are1) "free"2) Super motivated to sell (compared to any other lead generating tool)The only issue with the website is that it takes time to rank.

I’m looking to generate the best info available on investing in real estate as I have a friend that has a major windfall and wants to invest in this field

It is great for generating financial documents, reports, tracking depreciation, travel exoenses, etc.

I'm actually getting ready to roll out a direct mail campaign in my area to see if I can generate some leads that way.

Meaning resources such as ListSource we can no longer generate a home owners equity list.

@Kaden M Jackson rent it by the room. all i do is rent by the room. i have college students and regular people in my rentals. the income generated is well worth any extra work that comes about. i love this strategy. i am happy to help you in any way that i can.

You are looking to generate more income through another business, by starting a pm business and bring on clients.   

If you're referring to getting a business loan through your LLC to purchase the inventory- I don't think any bank is going to want to do that for you unless your business has a history of income generation and creditworthiness.I say wait the 6 months.

Business Model Generation, by Alexander Osterwalder (currently reading this), 4.

I also tried FB Marketplace, found it generated a ton of "I'm interested!"