Do you look for private lending or does private money find you?

[Reginald Lawal]

This is an interesting topic as most of the top tier real estate investors that I know purchased the bulk of their portfolio using private money while other investors use banks and other creative financing.  Which brings me to this question, how do most of the private money lenders out there find which deal they choose to lend on?...and how many deals are you comfortable funding at a time?