I learned the hard way that every project takes twice as long and costs twice as much, but I stuck with it.

Selling might make sense if you'd rather free up equity for a down payment or other investments, but that 2.25% rate is hard to walk away from.

I think they just started offering it again.Dyches Boddiford has a good course https://assets101.com/events/hard-money-lending-online/I and several others have taken it.

However these days good deals are hard to be found.

It's hard to build momentum if your focus is spread out.

Just make sure you understand how to underwrite a property or partner with a Hard Money lender that can manage the process for you. 

Just because we did it so quick shouldn't diminish the value, hard work and systems required to produce the result for you.  

Indeed, it was same for STRs for a long time and I think that is why seasoned hosts are having hard time understanding the downside of using multiple platforms since there was no penalty of using it at all.

Turned out not to be too hard, it is a lot of work but looks so good when done. 

That is when I pushed the wholesaler hard and he confessed there were a few liens on the property.