With a private company, you're really investing in the company's track record (ours is nearing the 12 year mark) and the management team.

Following this, I consider it another pro of our situation that I have the ability to do significant property renovations myself, and between my wife and I, we make a pretty good design team.

•Ensure you have a vetted and trustworthy team.

Our engineering team finishes in roughly 2-3 weeks with no major modifications required to our initial architectural plan.

definitely pretty common among Hard Money Lenders - just have to have a strong valuation team and expertise Yeah I can't remember the last time I had to get an appraisal on a hard money loan.  

OR Talk with a property management team that specializes in Padsplit / Co-living and they can give you some more realistic numbers to go with when it comes to occurancy % and cost!

They have multiple crews and a helpful team that can help you with your project. 

We need to hire more team members to keep up with our growth and will likely raise capital for operations.

Matthew - New Western is a large wholesaler in the Philadelphia area, so not sure if they are looking for more people on their team.

If you have want to scale with flips build a team and make it happen.