Traditional 30 year investment property home mortgage at 3.25%.What was the outcome?

As a top bird dog in the area, I’m connecting buyers directly to end users, bypassing the traditional marketing process altogether.

For us in the seller financed note investing world, we are often looking to find value in a deal that fell outside of a traditional banker's lending box. 

We used traditional means, like Zillow to find the property.

Traditional bank financing.

Yes but you will need to look for a local commercial bank to facilitate a HELOC or try a commercial lender for a traditional cash out loan.

Quote from @Karen Smith: With more investors turning to private money lenders for faster funding, what benefits have you seen from using private financing versus traditional bank loans? 

Financing options do exist: hard money loans, renovation loans, and some traditional mortgages can be used on distressed properties if criteria are met.

That is the traditional way to handle it.

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