Fort Collins area hard money

[David Hooper]

Hi all, New to Fort Collins after serving 8 years in the Air Force, mostly overseas. Moving to the city in November. Going to become a mortgage banker in December. In the meantime, I need to get investing in real estate! I need to buy a place, add value to it, rent it out and see if I need to update my financing to account for the added value. I also need a place to live. So, I need a hard money lender. Reason: I can't get approval for a conforming loan based on taking a commission based position without at least two years of income history. Here's the rub: I can't get a hard money loan without having a good property lined up. I can't get a good property lined up without having an approved funding source (at least it seems that way here in FoCo). How would you guys proceed? I appreciate any and all thoughts and comments.