So if you can get it paid for then why not 

Hard money then refi residential 30 yr How did you add value to the deal?

Once Apartments.com is going the money comes without much thought. i check on the first to see that the transaction has initiated then again on the eighth to see that the money deposited.

I put 20% (54,000) and then an additional 7% of the loan amount ($15,000) since the bank only offered 93% loan of the purchase price. 

If you can find a fixer at a good price, with room for an ADU, and the comps are good, then you have a deal.Are you planning on flipping or long-term holds?

The borrower can then legally sell the collateral in order to recuperate their money that was lent.

Then it sounds like you have your mind made up then right?

Then either keep it rented when they were deployed elsewhere.

I interviewed 3 different companies and then talked to some realtors as well.

@Matt Wan Many lenders require wet signatures on at least the Promissory Note but if yours does not, as a US citizen you could do the entire signing anywhere on the planet with a good internet connection + mic + camera via Remote Online Notarization (RON) for less than $200.If wet signatures are required, the answer then depends upon what foreign country you are in.