I'd say three months on the short end to six months on the long end.Oh!

After reflecting on a strategy someone used to buy 15 short-term rentals off-market in just 12 months, I thought of an idea.

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. 

I spent months, no, years, reading books, buying No Money Down cassettes, (Carleton Sheets, anyone?)

I work a lot with investors outside of the US from a tax perspective but from a mortgage perspective, as mentioned above hard money or DSCR is probably your best bet.

Then keep the speed of money & time moving to make more money in the end.

What are your short term goals? 

If you are cutting too close, you will lose money in the deal- Walk away from the deal if number doesn't make sense, I reject almost 90% of the deals bcz number doesn't make sense- Just think about how you can't lose money in the dealThese are the steps served me well in building a decent real estate portfolio.

You can even do it on paper if you don't want to pay a few bucks for the business version of TurboTax.That said, I hope your intention to run your flips through a C-corp has been discussed with your CPA.

(I've not done another capital gains exclusion ever.)Or would the sale be considered to have already happened 3.5 years ago, the owner-financing be considered a loan, and only the interest on the loaned-out money be taxable?