You can also have the investor come sign his documents in the morning, and the seller in the afternoon.Close the deal and walk out with a huge grin on your face and $5,000 in a check :).Happy investing! 

I would advise to grin and bear it.Just work in the costs of using licensed contractors into your financial models.

For grins you can use 20% to start with and adjust this north to be more conservative to allow for a lower starting offerYOUR capitalization rate will be based on weighting the two components above based on the terms driven by the lender.

I just grinned and beared it as nowhere else would provide a HELOC up to 80% ltv.

@Loren Whitney For grins, can we walk through a scenario for the person that:1.  

{grin} Glad you are amazed.

When that collapses, you're stuck with a sheepish grin and a lot of unhappy people.I think we will see Zestimates "correct" for the next 6 to 12 months while they sort things out and try to keep the SEC (and investors) out of their offices in Seattle. 

@Boris Grin  I think the bigger issue is those with no money desperately want in the game. but they don't have experience but they can scratch the 2500 together .. but then can never find the right deal and they become even less liquid when they lose their 2500.. folks from what the thread states only get that back when they close a loan..

Just about every other applicant claims that their dog is a service dog, with a big grin on their face.

It does buy a lot of ice creams. grin Mehran K.