Quote from @Joanna Mendoza: Asking for a friend.

@Ian Miller, there is a reason almost everyone starts with people they know: friends, family, coworkers.  

I have spoken with some real estate friends and they have told me about how private money has helped their business grow massively.

Quote from @Stan Sudarso: Quote from @Doug Smith: I had good friends/business contacts that worked there...all have fled to greener pastures.

I have a good friend in Stevensville Montana who does this nationwide. 

On getting kicked out, you won’t know like you said but most of the time those take months and from my experience, wasn’t super frequent for the military to just boot people out.

Made 260K from sale of first house in Seattle after 4 years, then did an off-market deal with a friend to buy current house and now our equity in this third primary residence is ~500k. 

Hi @Kenneth P Ford,I noticed there were a lot of responses of “messages you” so I’m not sure if that is solicitation, but in effort to help you and other reading this - I’ll share experiences from friends in the Dayton market.

I would have saved few thousand dollars in inspection fees and appraisal fees if I had known that and I had a friend send me detailed videos.I'm not sure if this information is available in all counties but where I bought in the Indianapolis metro area, I can look up property tax records.

@Sean Gammons I love house hacking and would absolutely do this every 12-15 months if my partner wasn’t totally against moving frequently.