We're just clueless mid west investors not interested in buying bad deals. 

In terms of using home equity, you would either have to take out the money using a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) or you could do a cash-out refinance.

-The mention of syndication being less risky than HML...I'd suggest it is more risk, possibly much much more since you don't know whether you are good or bad at vetting the operator right now.

I wanted to bad to bust out in her hit "What part of no don't you understand.".   

If you send a bunch of bad deals, people will stop listening.

Major in business (with a real estate focus), start learning through books, podcasts, and investor meetups, and work on building credit and saving money while in school.

Providing bad PMC‘s and builders… What a nightmare!  

As you can see the pictures, the homes were in bad shape.

The couch is very bad, but fortunately many pillows and throws so we were able to make the comfort acceptable!

You typically will see small banks/credit unions probably wouldn't be able to out-of-state, but otherwise any mid-size company or larger should be able to.