Help property owners, not to take advantage of or hurt the property sales process.

If you plan on buying these properties using a mortgage its also best to begin the pre approval process and work with an investor friendly lender to help guide and educate you what the best product might be for your projects to make sure you dont already max out your borrowing power after the first deal.

I planned to do a piggyback HELOC to have access to quick capital in case a good next deal came along but it has been a long drawn out process and right at closing they decided they needed a new appraisal.

It’s exciting to hear you’re diving into real estate investing and involving your daughter in the process — house hacking a small multifamily is a great way to start.

However, I have helped a couple people with extremely basic home layouts when they were in the process of remodeling their home.

I have never seen a hard money loan take 8-10 weeks to process. 

I hadn't really considered buying houses that need a lot of work because I have no experience with hiring contractors for large projects, but that might be the only way to get a cash flowing property here right now.

If you want to hire to have this built out and are willing to either pay good money for it or agree to 10% profit of anything that comes through it, I'd be happy to help build it out.

So even if new construction were to pick back up, it would take at least two years for anything to hit the market.What I really like about this area is how difficult it is to build and how long the permitting process takes. 

He is an investor, investor focused agent that specializes in short term rental, can assist with the staging process and also has a property management company as well.