I can probably help you I have done a lot of private deals and I don't pay taxes. 

Financial Highlights•Acquisition Price: $72,000•Renovation Costs: $35,600•Total Investment: $107,600•Funds: raised from personal savings and private lender How did you add value to the deal?

Some investors use conventional loans, while others use private lenders, hard money loans, or partnerships.

From what I’ve heard, private lenders or small groups often jump at projects like this when presented with clear ROI.

They would not be offering you a hard money loan (loan based on the hard asset) and instead they are lending to you as a traditional lender with private money.

One thing that happened back then its the rise of all this private money..

I recently moved back to the U.S. after almost two decades working in international development and entrepreneurship across the African continent, from co-founding a tech-enabled logistics company in Ghana to negotiating public-private partnerships for infrastructure investments in Senegal.

Several options you can explore to get the down payment capital: Solo401k; HELOC on personal residence or from equity of the SFR; Cash Value Life Insurance Policy; Business Credit; Private Lenders, to name a few.

This is a 'nicer' mobile home, double wide, 1998, shaped / looks more like a 'house', attached garage, on a very beautiful private lot. 

Ideally was thinking a duplex, triplex, or quadplex to get started and use an FHA loan but I also have a private lender that can possibly help with up to $200k worth of a down payment.