They have the best data of exactly how things will come out in the wash vs an agent who's focus is getting you to buy something. 

HML or private money loan would have been  10% down and with renovations funded 100% so your leverage would have been better with HML by quite a bit.. and since you flipped it quickly the interest an points cost would have been within a few grand maybe 5k difference.. and you would not have had to go through all the machinations of a sub to and seller would I am sure been happier getting cash out and their debt retired day one.. 

This was a well oiled machine with not a day going by that emails were not answered.

I would have pressure washed the driveway as well.

Get a job working at a bar a few nights a week, buy a pressure washer and go door knocking to pressure wash driveways and decks (for example, does not have to be that), and be an agent that hustles, works open houses, goes to RE meetups, networks like crazy, and learns a lot. 

Included the rental of the machine, the cost of the operator, new sewer pipe and rigid styrofoam.

Thank your lucky stars that you came across BP to find the truth because Morris white-washes his online presence.Here are links to the Holton-Wise documentary as well as a follow up video: DocumentaryFollow up Best of luck out there...

Ellensburg, Wash.9.

Buy or start a business, that is literally a cash flow machine and then feed that cash into real estate.

I'm in the Providence RI area, I've been using deal machine to virtually d4d, I am trying to find the most efficient ways of finding a steady inflow of strong leads but I have only get loose ones.