With regard to all the infrastructure jobs that will supposedly be created by the new administration - do you really want Chrysler engineers designing and Chrysler assembly workers building your bridges?

Equity partner, private lender, loan shark, credit card,seller financing, using more than one of these in conjunction, bridge loans, and many many others. 

I certainly don't want to burn any bridges, but the seller isn't using an agent and I feel like I can get a better price and such by handling this without an agent. 

But, long and short is that you would not need proof of income or a W2 for short term rehab, wholesale, and bridge loans and for some permanent financing products. 

Yes, may hard money and private lenders will not look at your debt to income ration particularly for short term loans like bridge financing and flips.

Don't burn a bridge with a loyal investor or family.

(or find a bridge lender that will roll it into a perm loan)

What happens sometimes are that they get slammed with extra work and have to hire "iffy" help to bridge the gap.

Now I think the answers as to why someone in NJ should invest in Cincinnati would go something like this: -people live there-big companies live there-urban neighborhoods are gentrifying-affordable living -diversity of neighborhoods--some good for flips, some good for consistent appreciation, and there are still plenty of C-D areas that show good returns on paper that people from NY and CA love to gobble up-major airport-major research university-we have Skyline Chili-Pete Rose is from here-Our Roebling Bridge is your Brooklyn Bridge's father-Goetta

(we've been waiting for approval for 4 months) I could've come up with extra cash had I known, I'd need a minimum of 15%... which is really upsetting, however since being surprised by this, one of my family members volunteered to bridge the 5% gap in financing I'm missing.