My best current strategy is a lease purchase agreement, where they give me the house for a low lease amount and I cash them out after I'm done remodeling. 

The previous owner who was planning to make a pet hospital had some of the drawings and plan done on this old building.The previous owner also had no plans for addition or extension of the existing building since it requires zoning of a plot which is more time consuming process based on the feedback I received from county and a couple of civil engineering firms that I reached out to.I was provided the following list for civil engineering work.Pre-construction phase1.

But it turned out, it was his roommate (who moved in without telling me, but turned out to be a good tenant) that was doing the cleaning up.

Private Money is simply money from a non-institutional source...such as someone lending out of their personal IRA or from their savings. 

There is a ton of opportunity off-market.Connect with an out of state investor agent that has a team that can cold-call. 

Best of luck there, it's a great town with good people.Absolutely Tyler, thank you for reaching out!

Just stay out of the higher crime areas of Memphis.  

I'm all the way across the country from you or I would invite you out for coffee to connect.

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Hi @Matthew Mclean, feel free to reach out via email to any of the real estate-savvy CPAs here on BiggerPockets.