On the flip side, I am in the process of acquiring over $1.5M in defaulted DSCR loans form borrowers who are your age that put 25% down but had no money to fix any of the problems  = lost the renters and walked from the property.

It also appears Investor's Edge may have rebranded from their old company name "Do Hard Money".Propstream screenshot:"Investor's Edge/Dohardmoney" screenshot: if its a reboot of Do Hard Money one would want to read all the threads on that Utah based company.

we can do it not rented but rate will be significantly higher. easier and more cost effective to rent it. unless the bridge money needs to be paid back asap or you need the funds back to buy more, then a cost analysis needs to be done. personally id get it rented at market rent or a touch below if time is a factor. 

The other two don't take into account the time your money is tied up.  15% of ARV is great, if your flips take 3 months. 

Sell them on coin base, then just use that money to put down.

If you are raising money in a syndication raising less than $1M can be challenging due to the setup and ongoing costs to manage and run it.

If you have the money and you can do something with it in California and you trust that the money will grow more there, then that's what I would do 

So you'll be putting out quite a bit of money to do that, and when you sell, you'll most likely have to convert it back.   

A GC makes money based on what you spend. 

And, for those people who have more time than money, they can put in sweat equity into directly owned real estate.