Private Lender contacted me

[Evan Rattray]

Good Morning All,

I had someone email me and we followed up with a phone call.  He said he was a private lender and saw I was looking for partners.  We had a brief discussion and I told him I would send him my list of questions I have for private lenders to make sure we would be a good fit.  (He primarily speaks Spanish so the language barrier was difficult.)  I tried looking him up on Bigger Pockets and Google but nothing came up.  My gut feeling says something is off but I've never dealt with private lenders before so this may all be legit.  My concern is it is a money launderer or something like that, how do y'all weed out the legit quality private lenders from something shady?