Under that, it gets very tough.If you plan on retaining/keeping any of the properties you pick up (whether using hard money or otherwise), I strongly recommend you start working with a lender now to see what can be done about your credit.

After picking a handful of areas of interest, it took me about 6 months to work on the deals that met the numbers I mentioned before.Now its time to scale!  

It all comes down to picking the right areas that work well with your personality and attract the type of clientele you feel comfortable working with. 

And ask if interested in picking up more, because as you said your looking to do more so if there looking you'd love to help keep any eye out for what there looking for. 

If they would open it up to dealing directly with the bankers, the speed of the recovery would pick up steam very rapidly.

Still very slim pickings in DFW area. 

As things with real estate are starting to pick up for me I'm now getting to a position where I could feasibly have more than one project running at a time and am trying to look at options for how best to keep these straight and on top of all the deadlines.

From what I’ve heard, they’re fantastic for networking and picking up local insights.

The members looking to lend just pick who, or a deal they want to lend to.

During the month of November, 4 units, pretty much all my problem tenants, picked up in the middle of their lease terms and vacated after failing to pay November rent.