Hard money and private money loans can ultimately feel like high-stakes games, but if you have the appropriate plan in place and add a little comedy to the mix, you'll discover that the trip was well worth it in the end.

I've always been drawn to RE and having discovered BP on Youtube and found my way to the podcasts, I feel like Scrat (saber-tooth squirrel) and his acorn.  

They will make cheap/easy fixes or they will discover your specific problem isn't covered by the warranty and you'll have to pay for repair/replacement anyway.Most property managers will not manage a home with a warranty because of the rejections, delays, and poor work. 

It isn't THAT high.If I'm approaching it the wrong way and you have secret strategies you're willing to share, I'd love to hear them. 

There’s nothing worse than a lender that over promises and then can’t deliver (sometimes they don’t even review your file before giving you the pre-approval letter and assuring you that all is well, charge you for the appraisal and let you go through inspection and pay for that out of pocket too, then their underwriters get involved and discover some reason they can’t process the loan leaving you high and dry).

Most of the rest of the place was rented by some Secret Service men,  it turned out Joe Biden's  home was just down the hill.  

Do you have a "secret sauce" to get them to pay something different than what their calculators approve?  

When we discover we have made a mistake, we reach out immediately and we hold ourselves accountable regardless of costs, we also expect the same of our customers and industry peers.

These include falsely claiming to have closed dozens of deals when none were ever closed, illegal payment of undisclosed sales commissions to bundlers and independent contractors, advertising the funds as safe and appropriate to investors with obvious near-term needs for their capital, creating fund of funds en masse assembly line fashion with no corresponding SEC filings, unregistered brokers/financial advisors acting in that capacity absent licensure, having customers wire money claim the fund is fully subscribed and putting them into a high yield promissory note, accepting funds from unaccredited investors, misrepresentations about the debt put on the project, lies about experience level of the principals, omissions of material facts, and at least two straight up Ponzi schemes.While it's true that some legitimate operators are having issues in their portfolios, today's circumstances are a perfect example of the idiom, "you can only discover who is swimming naked when the tide goes out."

If it sounds to good to be true and only one person has secret access to it - it is a scam.