Contact brokers you find on loopnet and earn their respect by showing them your proof of funds, your pre approved financing bank and your success team members and your resume.  

I would almost get a "resume" that you can attest to your success in real estate investing.Private money takes trust, and a yellow letter is not going to cut it. 

As soon as they'll lend 10:1 for stock market investing while giving me full control and the best tax benefits on the planet all at the same time, I'll resume investing there ;)

Hi @Mikki McIntyre,Thank you for the email @joewhite.Mikki knows me and can reach me at anytime to look at her financial resume and modeling up on acquisition and or purchases.Regards,Joe Scorese

I'm just hoping he doesn't explore his stated curiosity as to why the United States would produce nuclear weapons if we weren't going to use them.

Some ideas:Offer the seller an envelop with 12 post dated check - they don't have to wait for the letter carrier.Offer to put a deed in liue of foreclosures in escrow with their lawyer - transferring property back to them in the even of non-payment or violation of the terms of the mortgage - Offer to have monthly inspections of the property by sellerLet them know they will be added to your insurance policy in the event of fire - they get paid offOffer additional collateral (like a blanket mortgage) - always on a blanket mortgage you should have a release clause after the equity reaches a certain amount - no need to tie up your equityProvide additional co-signersProvide your financial statement and a copy of your credit reportProvide your nice guy resume (written testimonials about you from past customers, transactions, your preacher and other lenders, awards, newspaper clippings of you rescuing a cat from a tree, awards from the Boy Scouts)  have all this in writing.

We just haven't gone to war, had an earthquake, a nuclear disaster, a 'fat finger', banks gone wild, etc, for the last couple years so its been rosy.  

Then earn their trust by providing a verifiable resume of your experience as it relates to construction and real estate.Now you have to find a property with numbers that make sense.Even then you need to have cash for the closing costs, points due to the lender, and the monthly interest payments.

Some replies included a resume, which I thought was a nice touch.

If he has an average resume (or none at all), he won't get a second look from potential employers who have hundreds of them to look at.