You will incur more lending costs but you will only be in the first loan for 6 months.

Essentially the Fund would be our bank that lends to my LLC who purchases the properties.

How do you become a broker for hard money lending? 

The wholesaler created new terms with the tenants and the wholesaler plans to hold it so that the new loan gets seasoned, before selling the note.I opted not to get involved and have started my knowledge building into private lending.

I do believe though that many of the members do deals with some of the folks ... but they are doing more syndicated deals than just straight buy and hold or flips.The last time I was invited to speak at the NW reia it was about dodd frank and how its not legal in Orygun to private lend ( you can do two loans a year )..

For conventional lending, my spouse and I bought each on our own. 

If you look at the demographics of the city, we’re not growing but we’re rapidly changing”.Large institutional money has not found the Pittsburgh market yet.

My suspicion is, in this relatively relaxed lending environment, you will do well to learn for 100-500 hours and then just get started.

I'm wondering if what question you want to be asking is "What lending sources are available to me?

Same day auctions of course are not going to be possible for a lender to lend on the initial purchase but you can often get the same hard money purchase terms right after closing if you're able to buy in cash