If you do have the time, knowledge, and stomach to take some bigger risks, think about doing your own BRRRR.

Wholesaling is one of the easier investment strategies on the stomach.  

Its to the point where I have physical symptoms, eg shaking hands, sweaty feet, stomach pains, and even crying! 

It's kind of a strong stomach market - gotta deal with plenty of city crap to get things done. 

I see something very cynical in the fact that it has turned into this whipping boy not because the science is there, not because we have anything close to compelling evidence, but because the organic lobby understands that killing glyphosate is the best possible way to advance their agenda and get a bigger stomach share of America.I have a reaction to that because it's PSEUDOSCIENCE, just like I have a reaction to anti-vaxxers, just like I have a reaction to people insisting that the venom of the blue scorpion cured their cancer, or that that reiki healing and homeopathy are legitimate forms of medical treatment.

@Susan Maneck, seems like you have a cast-iron stomach and also did the right thing given your specific market :) Congratulations!

Ultimately the 680+ borrower who doesn't qualify for a conventional loan will have a hard time stomaching a 10% interest rate with out some other purposeful situation to resolve or deal with.  

If you could stomach that type of interest rate/points if your "new"/second lender doesn't come through, then you have fall back options so there's some protection of your EMD.Also, whenever you're asking for extensions, I ALWAYS ask for a period of time longer than what I think I reasonably need just to give some buffer.

I was told that I should stick with solid fundamentals and have a stomach for the corrections as these will principles will make for positive long term returns.

So if you have a good paying job in LA and can stomach low initial returns....long term the difference will be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.