To avoid actually collecting money every week the lease agreement stated that the term was week to week, but if you paid in advance for 4 weeks worth of rent on the 1st of the month, you would receive the remaining days of the month at the discounted rate of being free. 

There should be more of a thesis as to why this market is a good place to park your money.

As a result when the brokerage acts as the listing and selling brokerage  it saves both home sellers and buyers money.

Lots of money made here, but lots of money also gets lost here by out of state investors who don't understand what it is that they are buying.

I am in an interesting situation where I am in need of money to finish renovations on my primary residence.

With that said I do know a few hard money lenders who operate on the principle that they have to like you to lend you money, but most  

Would love to be able to do some value add so I can pull my money back out to reuse.

One of the biggest red flags I have as a lender (who lends my own money as well as secondary market loan) is when a rookie tells me there goal is to buy 10, 20, whatever properties in the next year. my next question is how many do you own currently?

@Cheryl J McGrath  Personally I don't see why any RTO buyer would enter into an agreement  and put down money if you don't own the house yet. 

Extra money down is extra risk!