By facilitating the closing process and leveraging a strategic marketing approach, we increased the property’s visibility and quickly found a buyer.

best wishes  i dont do gap funding at all.. so no.. not something I would do we do JV deals every week but we have zero debt all cash and we control the process. 

I met him many times before awesome GUY but you can definitely tell the dude is the biggest slacker in the world (for example: if he knows that going the long way will benefit him greatly but will be hard in the process, but cutting through the backyard to avoid the long-distance of wearing will be better, he will most definitely take the short cut!

Staging is the process of arranging and decorating your house to highlight its best features and make it as appealing as possible to potential buyers.

We take care of the entire process—from sourcing and purchasing properties to managing renovations and the final sale or rental.

With that being said, in a worst case scenario, you can always hire a property management company to handle the day to day items if it comes to that. 

The process for commercial properties is basically the same as residential properties, so it takes work.Again, echoing Dominic, a good investment is a good investment, whether you spent 8 months courting an owner to get them to sell to you, or whether it is on CBRE/Cushman/Marcus/Loopnet or any other brokerage website.  

Make sure it explicitly explains the process for termination if you are unhappy with their services, especially if they violate the terms of your agreement.3.

With regard to renovations, I always suggest taking incremental steps to bigger renovations or partnering with someone who has already done a renovation at that level.I've been known to just go for the big rehabs for my personal investments here in Chicago , and during that process, it's always more stressful than it needs to be...As far as navigating the competition, I've found the best thing I can do is get EXTREMELY CLEAR  on what I am looking for; then I am confident pulling the trigger quicky. 

Even when we became work optional, we still (wife and I) took on another live in flip, got part time jobs, starting cleaning our STRs ourselves rather than hiring cleaners (we're going to stop doing that this summer).