Do you use conventional or private?

[Jason H.]

I am just curious who actually uses private money and who uses a conventional loan? I need to keep my day job for another two years before I could potentially be able to leave and invest full time, that is not very appealing to me. I have never used private lenders, and don't know anyone personally with $200k plus to lend me to do some fix and flips. Who actually goes through some of these hard money lenders popping up on google search, lender sites?