@Bryan Hancock I think what you are doing makes a lot of sense when you have a more of a local crowdfunding portal, and the people running the company have deep extensive experience in the niche they are crowdfunding."

Though I don't intend to renovate this extensively going forward, I'm glad that I did.  

My cousin went with a local restoration company highly recommended by State Farm.The damage was very extensive and will take 6 months or so before my cousin can move back in the house.Sharad

I'm not sure how extensive the contract must be for your state.

Second question: I travel extensively for my full time job.

They are only going to try to sell you on going to a more extensive seminar and they use the guru's name to get you there and many think that "guru" will be in attendance when in fact they are not, they are just using their name. 

I have extensive experience with Corporate and LLC formations. 

The only thing that we would have to pay for is the credit check but since we defer that to that last and we have always made a decision by the time we get to that stage we don't run the credit checks (I have documented extensively in other threads why they are not helpful to us).

You won't like what you see.It's is a very rare to non-existent HML that will loan 100% without a prior relationship and extensive dealings with them.

I brought a breakdown of the costs that I would incur taking on the property and the extensive work it will need to be able to be sold at market value.