Personally, I’ve been looking for ways to align creativity with the numbers, whether that’s finding undervalued properties, building relationships with local agents, or pivoting to new strategies.

Also consider when you sell house with seller financing to owner occupied person as their primary residence you cannot balloon per Dodd Frank.  

Ask for higher security in person have them back out on their own if they still want the place you will be safer with more security

Some owners expect their PMC to actually be a personal assistant:(How did you set expectations for this client when onboarding them?

You are still going to have holding costs and a heloc will just have less holding costs that you would if you were doing a personal line or hard money. 

How many properties have you seen in person during these years you've been looking, but not buying? 

But then I am taking risk , the contractor doesnt share in the reward .

Then the person is soured on gambling on real estate and not around here to answer questions. 

Quote from @Monish Anand: Start by looking for personal recommendations from investors in that market, then look on realtor.com or a google search.DO NOT use agents suggested by a website like realtor, Zillow, etc.

I enjoy hearing about peoples’ personal wins and innovative, creative strategies.