Trying to find a portfolio lender is one big, fat, hairy frog for me. 

Sometimes it's unavoidable, but you can definitely minimize it by being really comfortable with your original plan, and where you will cut the fat when (not if) you need to.Then, the construction loan is only very short term so you need to make sure you have solid contractor who can get things done on a timeline.

This will involve more overhead and more risk as the cash flow won't be as fat. if your goal is to keep things simple with very low risk, it's a great idea to pay properties down as fast as possible and buy the next a little while later. growing faster usually means Slimmer margins on each deal but more deals coming in and in the long run a bigger snowball at the bottom of the hill.

Hopefully you have built up a nice fat list of rehab buyers to wholesale to.

Remember the pig gets fat, and the hog gets slaughtered!

Originally posted by @Victor Drazen:Hello,Loan Originator: No fees/no salary/Split commissions: 3% of loan amount and split: 85% originator (me): 15% Broker (employer)@Jerry Padilla apparently we're overdue for some big fat raises. 

, credit scores are great, and they have big fat down payments (which could hint at their "real" income that you won't see on tax returns).All the data that I've read says that non-QM is outperforming FHA.

You do not win all the deals but I just want the fat ones.   

Media often presents us as rich fat retired on a beach white guys (real estate publications don’t help this nor do blogs like BP with headlines like “Retire in 12 months with $1,000,000!”

If I can't trust what they are saying, its a big fat PASS for me.