My brother-in-law, who owns a landscaping company in Lee’s Summit, works with a lot of local builders and has been a huge help.

@Jordan Brown your question is a matter of numbers and not location. 

i just got off the phone with lindsay someone that works for them they want $34k and they offer no guarntees. thave a 78% success rate in getting people funding. that mean 22% of the prople that signed up where promised the world but were not able to raise capital. according to linday they have 700 paid members. 700x.22=154. 154 people paid them $34k and were not able to raise funds. im not an expert but they need to file a case with the attorney generals of the united states. i asked lindsay why isnt capital raising set 1 because ill pay you $34k from the money you help me raise. all of a sudden she is busy and got to hang up with me. i told her i gave you 1 objection and she gave up.i did not have a good feeling speaking with lindsay. and after the call i checked my email she sent me 2 emails. 1 minute apart from each other which tells me they will take anyone and everyone. as long as they pay $34k.

Aaron, your strategy of leveraging equity through refinancing to pull out tax-free cash while maintaining cash flow makes a lot of sense, especially with the stability of W-2 income.

Definitely be mind of the due on sale clause with taking out a HELOC and quit claiming into an LLC.

I’d love to swap stories! Let's connect!

Are you asking how you can get access to private money or are you asking how one becomes a private lender?

Hey @Tori Rhodes - As a builder myself here in Chicago that is a question I hear often.Before looking into your loan options, I'd look long and hard at the cost of land and construction in your Grand Rapids area. 

You'll find a lot of hard working contractors.Have something to write on as many of the contractors won't have business cards.You'll still want to screen them a bit because, "there's a reason they work with the hands, not their heads":)

If you are both not fully on board, your spouse will resent you because this was not his/her idea and you are still living on concrete floors or sharing 1 bathroom, etc. - just the inconvenienced existence of fixing up one project at a time.