Over time, you're essentially shorting the American dollar, and with how both sides of the aisle run deficits, the printing machine isn't being turned off anytime soon.

I take a loan against the cash value at 5.5% and put it into ATM machines which pay around 25% cash on cash. 

Okay, Rand Paul has spoken up, but the rest are just part of the "happy machine" to keep spending our money (while keeping a very large cut, kinda like a mafia loan shark) to give to ourselves to "make us happy".

HML or private money loan would have been  10% down and with renovations funded 100% so your leverage would have been better with HML by quite a bit.. and since you flipped it quickly the interest an points cost would have been within a few grand maybe 5k difference.. and you would not have had to go through all the machinations of a sub to and seller would I am sure been happier getting cash out and their debt retired day one.. 

We're also looking at deal machine.   

This was a well oiled machine with not a day going by that emails were not answered.

Included the rental of the machine, the cost of the operator, new sewer pipe and rigid styrofoam.

Buy or start a business, that is literally a cash flow machine and then feed that cash into real estate.

I'm in the Providence RI area, I've been using deal machine to virtually d4d, I am trying to find the most efficient ways of finding a steady inflow of strong leads but I have only get loose ones. 

To tap into discussions re other CRMs, search here on "CRM",  "Freedomsoft", "deal machine",  "property list manager", "investor fuse" , I would do these same searches on youtube!!!!!