Private Lending and property acquisition

[Dennis Dougherty]

Good Morning all,

As I re-start in the world of REI, I am looking to build a reliable network of people and professionals. over the past few years, I have been working to build this business while holding a job. Once I replace the JOB income then move to Full time investing. There have been a couple of decent deals over the past 7 years or so, but no real consistency. A few of the big obstacles that I a have run into

so far:

1) finding properties at a reasonable price

2) finding a property (PFC) before it has been put under contract by someone else

3) Finding reliable people to do repairs

4) Finding reliable / affordable sources of  sources of private and institutional funding

Do any of the seasoned investors have suggestions for this?

Thank you for any suggestions,

Dennis Dougherty