Its 20 years later I have money in the bank, great credit,  living alone very modestly, and a business that is doing well.

Most of the lenders I work with (provided you have experience and a credit score over 660) would do up to 85% of the purchase price and up to 100% of the rehab costs, provided this doesn't exceed 75% of the ARV.As for the idea of selling the land, great idea.

But day trading is a job at best and a nightmare at worst. 

Off market deals usually have nonrefundable deposits and a clunkier process that isn't as suited for out of state people until they have good contacts in the area to evaluate the property (mostly contractors that feel comfortable evaluating projects for you).

As an investor and a commercial real estate broker I would not expect a buyer  to spend a dime on due diligence unless the buyer/seller come to an agreement on a purchase contract.

*There was 10.1% more listing inventory in the metro and a whopping 30.5% more active listings on the market in the City of Austin.

What I have are the rents of the 3 tenant occupied units, the owner supplied projected rents for the other two units and a hokey formula on parsing out utilities for the units that are not separately metered. 

Also, my guests always love my little goodie basket of snacks and a few bottles of water. 

I've closed a bunch of loans with Kiavi, Roc, and a few with ABL, I also closed with RCN, Easy Street, Lima One, and some smaller private lenders.I've come to the conclusion that the experience at the lender is not globally good or globally bad. 

its most unfortunate that you had to go through this deception and theft from someone who is considered a professional in this business. we definitely appreciate you putting the warning out about this character. as hard as it is to find a reliable experienced contractor nowadays its even harder to find one that's not a crook and a liar and that's truly pathetic.