Networking with private money lenders or hard money lenders who specialize in real estate can also be beneficial.

What words do you search for in the private remarks when you are looking for a fixer/rehab project?

I’m going through my private adjuster so is making the claim go slower than wanted.

Share Your Funniest Private Money Lending StoriesYou could kick off the discussion with a funny anecdote or a lighthearted poll, like, “What’s the most creative excuse you’ve heard for a late payment?”

Private Money How did you add value to the deal?

Private Money How did you add value to the deal?

Speaking for myself I would never consider a Sub2 unless I knew I had alternative exit strategies to take out that underlying mortgage either by private money, conventional, or other routes.What is the significance of the " default judgement states," versus what we have here in WA, OR, CA ? 

I see them as huge opportunities but not talked about a lot.Well REO's have gone down to to lower foreclosure rates. drawbacks are banks are very low and non responsive, unless its not a traditional bank and a private lender then you could possibly get a better deal.

Or is it, because they are "private" money lenders, there is no public records to refer to? 

It serves many benefits for both buyers and sellers and if a law had been passed long ago that all such private transactions were required to be serviced through a thrid party, we would not have as much regulation addressing the issues we have today, specifically, the individual investors under the SAFE Act!