I personally don't know much about it but I'm seeing a lot more of this happening in SD and have met with some owners who have been successfully doing this in Serra Mesa and other areas of SD. 

Hey Keegan, Have you considered a personal loan?

Becoming a Key Principal (KP) in other people’s commercial real estate deals is a great way to shelter your income, participate in several deal at the same time, minimize / spread out risk, capture equity w/ a preferred double-digit return at a discount cash-out-of-pocket investment. 

Anyway, shadow that person as much and as often as you can so that you can learn the ins-and-outs on how to be successful.

In return, we’ll do our closing with them.

I use it like others use a personal website.

If your friend is a super responsible person I’d be troubled by this.

Personally I like Facebook marketplace but I get about 85% flakes who either just aren’t qualified or end up no-showing to the showings.

This is based on my personal experience.

I personally like to use attraction or content marketing; better use of my time, less rejection (which takes a psychological toll on you) and higher quality leads.