How do I Private Lend?

[Gabriel Guerrero]

Hi everyone, I'm interested in lending some money to fix and flippers and possibly other types of investors. Only thing is, I don't know how and I don't have much to lend. As of now I'm only comfortable lending around 5k. I figured that may be good for someone who has a small rehab or someone who recently ran into an unplanned problem during a rehab. 

How would I go about finding someone and how do I make it legit?

Please if anyone is experienced with this any advice would be much appreciated. 

Thank you!