Thanks, @Derek Brickley - the houses that we used seller finance and private money are in my personal name. - The commercial property is in an LLC, we get K-1s from the LLCs taxes every year showing that the LLC pays for the expense and is cashflow positive; except for the deprecation we take :) I plan on buying a new primary residence in the next 1-2 years and want to know if I need to have the commercial loan adjusted so that its no longer personally guaranteed.

I will send you a private message. 

Typically his projects have been privately funded and smaller than this one.

If you’re in an area with a strong private banking community, that might be your best bet.Hope that helps!

I’m looking at private lending to flippers with a line of credit or using a line of credit to put a down payment on a new cash flowing property (which is extremely hard for me to find right now) but with a line of credit as a down payment I would be financing a new property at 100% at unfavorable rates.

- Are there alternative financing options, like private lenders or hard money loans, that could be suitable for someone with fluctuating income?

In that case, the taxpayer had individuals testify to his character and work in court, which is an unusual scenario and highlights the difficulty of making such a claim.If the TP cannot qualify for REPS, they may still be eligible to claim material participation in the deals, even with less than 5% ownership in some of them.

You could invest passively by being a private lender (earning high interest), being a money partner (getting equity and a return for no work), investing in a syndication deal (similar to money partner but on bigger deals where you are one of many investors), buying another investment property and hiring a property management company, or investing in stocks. 

@Deborah WodellThere was a guy who used to post on BP from Maryland who did private lending and was a fraud, changed company names many times and what he would do is write construction loans, fund the initial amount but didn’t have the money for the draws.

Jack,since you run Gelt and do private lending, think of being in first position on a loan with a private lender and that lender just randomly assigns the loan to someone else without advising you.