They need to be motivated to do business with you in order to trade some of their equity for speed and convenience.Good luck!

Once you are up to speed on the market ave your space you need to get out there and meet the right people and provide value to the marketplace.

As I can do a lot of the work myself, I am paying the contractor for the speed of me not doing it. 

Keep in mind that cheaper is not always better; sometimes the speed of funding will outweigh points. 

If you're open to work, you might be able to nab a duplex but again it will require some time and capital to bring it up to speed.

Once you get a system down and speed becomes the hurdle to overcome, then delayed finance becomes appealing.

So to help the budget I went in and installed flooring and minor things to help speed the process up at nearly the end of the rehab.It definitely was a learning experience and has really helped me prepare for other rehabs. 

In some cases their manager or business takes all the credit leaving them with little recognition.

The traditional mortgage with a bank or credit union is appealing because of the stability but also like the flexibility and speed of HML (such as buying cash only homes).

First thing we did was evict the problem tenant, luckily we were able to offer her cash for keys to speed up the process.