Avoid Private Money Lenders who mysteriously contact you out-of-the-blue without context or explaining how they found you.

Sounds like turnaround time could still be a bit of a mystery, with the biggest potential delay coming with appraisal.

Also the US requires you to pay income taxes even for overseas profits.).Top 10 murder rates by country in the world.  

And as far as availability of deals, though I'm having a hell of a time finding anything that meets my narrow criteria (I'm looking HARD for some cheap value add that I can BRRRR and cash out or a flip with a conventional loan, though I keep hearing I need to look into smaller banks and construction/rehab interest-only draw loans), I know two  flippers who stay busy and two buy and hold guys who are murdering inventory acquisition. 

The universe works in mysterious ways.

From there, like an airborne disease, the infestation spreads to all the other properties, crime rate goes up, drugs being deal in the alleys and the street corners, drug deals fone bad, shootings, murders.

If you paid market for the property and it does not matter who you bought it from.. if you want better deals. you need to do your own direct marketing buy them before the wholesalers get them then the wholesaler sell to the turn key contractors then they do their thing there has to be financing cost in there.. then there is sales load.. non of this is a mystery.. its still amazing that they can do all this and still bring product to market and your making 5 to 7% I call that a homerun.  

The title co. should be no mystery, I assume they are designated in the contract.

Maybe those stats will keep some people away (like me) so that there are good deals for those who see what I don't see.Do a word association game/test with some random folks - almost everyone associates "Chicago" with "Murder" right now.

An alternative approach is being proposed by the Carlsbad city attorney, he said.In the meantime, Pines said he is urging his fellow attorneys to stop paying their dues to the bar association -- he has not paid his bill of about $700 -- and is working with authorities on what he describes as a conspiracy to implicate him in a murder plot.Earlier this month, Pines told the Union-Tribune he typically alerts real estate agents and the media about a given foreclosed property."