Many who bought Harbour loans were contacted by the Attorney General (and ones I know were required to modify the loans with lower interest rates and transfer them to traditional mortgage and note).For those that have been following, there is another suit pending against many of the bigger players like Vision, One Pine (part of home opportunities).

Basically any other areas that fit in similar profiles to these players will be great suggestions for me to dig into.

@Kyle Nield if you are in the 1-4 unit space then you can just use a mortgage broker from one of the larger national players for the cash out.

Playing poker there are signals sent to other players called "TELLS".Until you have control of a deal, don't talk, keep your cards close to yourself  and mute your comments.It's nice to be friendly, but this doesn't help when you are trying to control a deal.You need to find the owner of this estate, who is it assessed to, where are they, has it been listed in the past, is it in tax sale.

Institutional players can wait years for the market to improve.

Are there any players out there originating these still though?

She knew the area, was a fellow investor, knew all the key players; contractors, lawyers, title companies etc.

Might be an ideal time for you to jump in and learn who some of the players are as well as get up-to-the-minute insights on investing here.

Likewise, since hard money has become less accessible, you will see a smaller quantity of players but the ones that remain will be cash heavy.

I finance these assets all the time, and I always have to explain to my newer (and experienced investors actually) that leverage in the small balance multifamily game is capped at 75% for a vast majority of the players, in a healthy market.