If you're gonna lend you need to be 1st position lien.

I’d love to hear any advice or personal experiences from others who have been in a similar position.

In today's world you need to be about 28-35% down on properties to be gross cash flow positive, closer to 40-42% to be truly net cash flow positive(i.e 50% of your income goes to maintaining the property, other 50% is actually profit).My recommendation is to buy ideally a 4/3 SFR that's a starter-friendly one in a good area, and rent it out by the room.

I'm just wondering if anyone had any updates from the receiver Charlie Adam's or have any positive lead, fact about Van Gundy?

Hi Tom, Sounds like you are in a good position and have options!

Thank you You are obviously a sincere young person looking at improving your financial position.  

If we were a GC and had cashflow for 2+ years and positive NOI they would consider a small business loan but outside of that, its challenging getting a business loan for real estate.

It's challenging to find lenders that are willing to be in 2nd position on an investment property, but I called quite a few during the process. 

For example, if you are in a secured position and invest $25k and can get 10% per year at $2500 or you can get 15% unsecured which is $3750, are people willing to risk the extra $1,250 a year where you could lose all of your $25,000 investment compared to being secured where chance of losing it all I would view as astronomically lower?

We still see 1% positive cash flowing deals with appreciation potential.