.~ I will most likely purchase the first home (multi-family) using a bridge-DSCR loan combo or a FHA203K (3.5-20% down). 

FHA LoansIf your down payment savings and your credit score aren’t where you want them to be, an FHA loan could be your pathway to buying a home.

Can you be financially free, sure, consider if you are buying real estate you will no longer have stable income to get a loan.

You can buy a rental house, put $60,000 down and you will have to get a non-recourse loan for the rest of the mortgage.

They would do a 7 year equipment loan on the containers.  

Does the loan have a "history" is it FHA, VA, Conventional16.

The counterclaim states that since the deed in lieu language was part of the loan, the entire loan is invalid.

The process from start to finish would take four months and cost ~200k to build, with comps in the area around 355k-lender man said, refinancing would take six months as most lenders wont refinance a property unless its been built for six months, affecting the strategy to get paid out from refinancing quicker and closing out on construction loan-The property would not appraise at comps value, but at the cost it took to build, affecting getting paid out from the refinance.

Traditional bank loans can be slow and have strict requirements, while hard money and private lending seem to offer more flexibility.For those who’ve secured funding before, what’s been your experience?

I've seen many investors get burned because they failed to understand their hard money loan terms/rates, even if they did acquire what should have been a home run deal.