Are you using your own money for your flips or do you have a lender/investor that funds your flips?

.#2  MINDSET:  Just like some people will NEVER become real estate investors regardless of time, money, related profession, - MOST people will never become real estate investors.   

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Could these waits be mitigated by going the hard/private money route?

Unless you are talking serious money, which I would say is 2k or more in excess taxes, it may not be worth your effort.

If you want higher growth then Cleveland and Dayton type markets with $100-150k prices may be better suited.I would encourage BRRRRs after your 1-2nd so you can recycle your money.

There are less expensive hard money lenders out there. 

The only thing we can think of is he deals with a lot of international trade and money and maybe it’s OFAC we just get a scripted message every time we talk to someone so we got lawyers involved. 

You can attend all the REIAs and read all the books and sign up for all the conferences, and spend all the money, and you are will never really know you can do it until you do.Over 20 years in real estate in various forms and roles, action will beat out intelligence or education or even network 100% of the time.  

At that point we hired an independent appraiser and the numbers came back good and the hard money lender agreed to use them.