As I will continue to seek out deals, I was curious of other creative ways to put my license to good use rather than compete against the big sharks and still have a profitable side career to supplement my day job.  

Do you know yet whether you want to be a shark, a flipper, or an investor?

Swiffering or residential grade steam mopping (like the inexpensive Shark model) is fine, and really all that is needed. 

There are sharks circling. 

If you cannot walk into your local bank and credit union and based on your relationship with the bank IE large deposits and I am talking in the multi hundreds of thousands.. or very large incomes I am talking in the multi hundreds of thousands.. and or very long experience level I am talking decades there is NO money at those rates. what there is   is money at 9 to 15% or higher.. once you grasped that concept and folks stop wasting time.. then you just plug those numbers into your deals.Now if your talking about yoru 4 mortgage slots for rentals  that's a whole nother story but if your looking for fix and flip type funding  etc etc.. the niche is the HML in the country and there are a lot of themget a copy of the Scottsman guide there are list there of reputable national HML.

We booked the first available slot on Saturday - at 10am.

But when it cratered oh man.. these folks had no reserves they could not afford a simple turn over they were totally under capitalized and as we know turn key operators in those days did not sell A and B class so the assets just did not perform on a razor thin budget and then the defaults happened.. and there you go the ugly cycle.

In other words, how to smell and avoid "shark" private lender(s).  

I am ready to swim with the sharks and dive into real estate investing after 1 year of seminars, training, books and Now a Mentor I feel safe enough to get started.

Welcome to my Shark Tank :p !!