With conventional financing becoming more restrictive, real estate investors may turn to hard money loans for acquisitions and rehab projects.

The checking account can act as the home for the funds until you deploy the money into and investment, then all expenses and returns flow from and into that checking account that you control. 

You don't need to make all your money on your first deal.

They marked it down as a "claim," even though the delivery guy never filed suit, asked for money, or sent a demand letter. 

To get things "shaking and my blood pumping again" lol as money is tight.

U guys let it get this far over 3400.00 its your fault.. even if you did something wrong.. who is going to go to arbitration for such a small amount of money..

If you don't want to separately meter for gas (which would be expensive but you would recoup the cost many times on a long hold), you are going to constantly be feeding this alligator of tenants wasting your money with liberal use of heat. 

They reversed the transaction initiated by the hacker and I can withdraw the money from my account.

or, do you cash flow only after you've set aside money for capex and other items? 

I never saw a contract but if i had to guess I'm sure it says something like "if you don't make $500K it's not our fault and we are keeping your money".