Thank god you already had some red flags, not desperate and acted on your gut feeling.I see wholesalers all the time ASSUME they know what Transactional Lending is when they really mean something else and are either not knowledgeable or intentionally trying to find an inexperienced private lender.T.

People that had lost everything were desperately looking for homes, and some of the rental companies were taking rental applications, and families were paying for multiple application fees.

Fadi is his attorney who seems as desperate as he is to raise money and may even be getting paid based on how much money is raised at these events. 

I wonder if he knew exactly how to work his thermostat and was just so desperate for company he tried to make an excuse, so you would come visit him. 

I am starting a small business and I called them desperately as I needed funds but now they are charging me 10K for my own credit cards.

Diamond has failed to thin out my less than big pockets of $1,500.00 - truly rapacious of him to prey on unsophisticated, unwitting people who are desperate for a "side hustle."

Our PMC doesn't care what the reason is for a tenant being late, our systems send an eviction notice for nonpayment of rent to "start the clock" and get tenants to communicate & cooperate.We've found that if we don't start the clock, so there's a deadline for tenants, tenants just use excuses to buy themselves more time, at the expense of the owner.Desperate people say & do desperate things!

Desperately want to do my first deal and just don't know where to start.

Desperation shows no shame sometimes.Stick to your gut homie.

We had a list of preferred real estate agents we listed our stuff with to get fair market (maximum) sales price.If we wanted to dump a property below market value, we knew who the players were and would contact them discreetly - we didn't want any negative publicity.Unless you find a desperate, failing lender, don't see you having much success.