@Juan VargasI personally started my business by leveraging credit and now own/operate a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio.

If each of my contractors charged me $500 every time they pulled a permit, I'd have spent probably close to a quarter million dollars for contractor pulling permits over the past 8 years.Considering a typical permit costs about $50 and takes about 20 minutes of time (let's call it 60 minutes if you add in the extra driving time), that's means I should be paying no more than $100 to have a permit pulled -- the $50 for the permit and then up to about $50 for the contractor's time. 

I, like millions of others, have cash ready to invest under the right conditions. 

I am in the middle of a million dollar plus deal where the buyers are first time home buyers and the inspection report, which didn't actually find anything significant, but still found a way to eclipse 60 pages, scared the hell out of the buyers so I have spent the last 72 hours explaining how these things actually work and ensuring it will still close.

Now go over to Zillow & tell me how many of those baller south shore Destin homes you can get for $357k (or even for under $1 million!).

Next $1 million split between income and equity.  

If the goal is to make hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars over decades, great deals that can assist in that journey can be found all day long on the MLS. 

I also know from some AGM for strata meetings (my PM also does strata management for condo buildings), that some people require a lot more hand holding and ask a million questions which takes a lot of time.

best terms are from national firms that have hundred of millions of dollars to deploy and who lend in 50 states.

Experienced investors with plenty of cash Millions in Cash will get them.