Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

I have a potential private lender, but I need to determine if this is a viable investment opportunity and explore the best financing options 

I had never heard of such a thing.. and most private flippers dont know it either So like on our subdivisions whatever LLC we own it in that LLC also has to have a developers license .. so  If you have multple subdivision going in multiple LLC you need multiple developers licenses.. where this can stymie some folks  NOT EVERYONE can qualify for a Bond.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Is this an amenity worth spending $$ on?

You’ll spend more time learning how to manage than you will actually managing something.

Does anyone have any strategies on how to a position a partnership with a private lender in order to start to obtain a Rental portfolio (with no out of pocket capital)

If you're gonna spend your money in Cleveland on some cheap properties, you'll want to learn the ins and outs of all of the neighborhoods.

If you know that a 2BR single family rental averages $1000/month in your market and someone tells you they have a good deal for you on one for $175k how much time are you going to spend analyzing it?

We don't practice discussing the details of private transactions publicly, thats just not good business.