Us bank played trustee and guarantor in sham of a foreclosure where they could not prove they were a PETE  and had been hit with their 4 the ftc sanction FOR stealing homes, used hole in the wall attorneys in Bellingham using typos in name and address to not get flagged for too many foreclosure by the courts, Windermere stellar real estate who say outside of my home waiting to lock me out despite supreme court stay on their theft, judge Lewis who signed every Forged/inaccurate/misleading  paper they put through AND denied my restraining order of the real estate company staying called them to see if they were harassing me and they Said no so denied temp and all together day in court altogether plus put a no Bail hold on me after looking my arrest for trespassing even though was taken out of his jurisdiction and in federal court staying paperwork not filed correctly then laughing saying I didn't know why You're here is in supreme court when I got out of jail and made it to court hearing, the assessor for king county who was on third foreclosure company because feds kept shutting them down so opened new one in different name, every process server was at least 200 miles from me and each one different for each document never served to me but judge Lewis signed them anyways(one was supposedly served to me 3 months before case was even filed), Vancouver Police department who had no jurisdiction on the civil matter that arrested me and gave my house keys to the realtor that was sitting outside waiting, and finally to the site veteran that they used to sign in all three places to transfer title and get veterans protection for title after 2 illegal auctions, one public one private, where they were only bidders and opening bid was above value of house, paperwork stated was bought by lsf8 AGAIN!!! 

You can play around with an amorization table and make an educated guess based on the info found on public record.

I would not play around with creative finance in terms of spending time trying to find it because it will end up not being the best use of your time unless you have marketing money and understand the different scripts and way you can help people with seller finance or sub to.

The majority of creative finance deals are actually done by those with capital because they have the leverage to play that game.

Will have to play around with it and see.

Hi BP friends,I recently have been looking at STRs near National Parks, and I wonder whether it is a pure cashflow play, or a combination of cashflow + appreciation play?

You have to know it takes effort and a lot of time, play the long game, but it's totally worth it. 

Granted - these hard money guys don't play around with their rates and fees - but they'll get you more leverage and help you keep the equity requirements lower so that you can build up a strong track record and start taking down deals with your own / immediate family equity. 

There are a lot of factors that come into play in order to successfully close on a property.

Whether its a value add or a yield play, operations are the key to success as CAP is the result of  NOI and a sales price.