I'm particularly interested in what tactics people have implemented for sourcing quality deals (not the I need 100% financing bs)Would you:1.

Its hard enough if the home was in your name let alone an LLC as your LLC can not get any bank financing.

If you have cash on hand to fund the rehab and want to extract it soon after the project is done, you can use delayed financing.

Does anyone have any creative financing advice or any insights?

The vast majority of these units I purchased using private financing with $0 out of pocket. 

Borrowed money from friends and family to pay cash for the property as the bank would not finance it until it had been remodeled, made livable, and brought up to code.

Also, I think this could not be used as secondary financing. 

If she wants to owner finance it that's great but I would want full control. 4.

Then connect with some hard money lenders (you can find some here on BP as well as some who are typing this right now) and connect with them to understand their product type, what they like to lend on and requirements.Hard money broker is all numbers game of making relationships and helping those that are looking for financing, it starts out slow but if you get with a few good borrowers and lenders it can be pretty decent money to be made.As an example we paid six figures last year to HM brokers. 

My education background is in computer science, mathematics and some corporate finance, as well as have some internship experience in the quantitative finance space.