If I'm saving for the down payment for my next real estate investment, I would put the money in a more liquid type of saving or investment product.

This is because it was poorly converted, improperly done, "patched up" over time, and might have mixed up mechanicals etc.

Poor experience overall, felt like it was run out of a college dormitory. 

Great tools that get updated regularly.I am on the lending side of things and would be happy to hop on a call with you anytime to discuss financial strategies and help answer any questions you may have about nearly any loan product available to help you on your journey, even if they are not products my capital partners offer.

Permits are a pain but liability for a poor renovation is brutal. 

Just have to run your number on the market and the product type (i.e. small houses versus big houses, etc).

Additionally, you may find that the pressure of the hard money loan will cause you to go faster and make poor decisions, or life could happen, and you could be delayed in completing the rehab.  

I would say this was the least organized BPCon (no cevent App, poor email distribution, my workshop that was $300 had about 20% attendance rate) I have been to, with the worse room problems (both ac and hot water problems in my room), and the hurricane issue (they cancelled the meal but many of the restaurants required reservations that we did not make because we were expecting the meal), and in my opinion worse keynote speakers even when one was a repeat (I like David Greene keynotes, but …), I enjoyed this BPCon more than the others I attended. 

Those incentives can be great opportunities  builder pain is  very regional and product type dictates..

I have looked at other investments with her, but did not find the product we wanted at a price we were willing pay.