Hard money loans can facilitate faster closing times compared to traditional financing, allowing you to secure and renovate properties quickly.

If your network likes the pure equity play, you should offer that.With the "debt" financing, are you planning on using this as your mortgage, with no "traditional" mortgage ahead of it?  

We are renovating a home in the Catskills and stuck on what railing to install on our outdoor deck—cable or metal.  

If you don't have it you can call your insurance company and ask them to email you the declarations pageRecent Mortgage Statement:2 Different Utility Bills: Gas, Electric, Cell Phone Bill, Cable, Garbage, any two utility bills.Copy of Mortgage Note all pages: Was included in your closing documents when you purchased the home.

I'm renting them as non-traditional units (6 of them). 

If you don't have it you can call your insurance company and ask them to email you the declarations pageRecent Mortgage Statement:2 Different Utility Bills: Gas, Electric, Cell Phone Bill, Cable, Garbage, any two utility bills.Copy of Mortgage Note all pages: Was included in your closing documents when you purchased the home.

Usually, this would include something like a holding company ("Hold Co"), typically a traditional LLC, which in turn then owns an investment entity, often a traditional or Series LLC, which will be the entity that owns the assets/property invested into (the "Investment Co").

Yeah you won't get the tax benefits that trickle down to your personal income but that's because in a retirement account there are NO taxes on the gains in a Roth or it's tax deferred in a traditional.  

Depending on the types of repairs needed you may or may not be able to get a traditional mortgage for the property. 

Others specialize in buying rentals using traditional 20% down methods.