The menu, featuring breakfast options like bacon and eggs and Cuban toast, as well as enticing offerings like shredded beef in criolla sauce and sandwiches, promises a delightful experience.

Reality is they performed a questionable assessment of the property and when combined with their other secret sauce, they only offered me a single HELOC of $15K out of the 4 properties I had applied for. 

Last time I was there, there was spegitti sauce on ceiling, the walls were covered in crayons. 

Loan sponsorship compensation is also typically low in the investment clubs; so, understand that when getting information from other deal sponsors who may be in a club.Loan sponsor comp is also a little bit of the secret sauce; so, not everyone is going to reply in a public forum.  

For me, if you take leverage out of REI, you might as well start selling tomatoes and vegetables!.

tried and true in this business - if the question is "how are they doing it" - the answer tends not to be that have a magic secret sauce, but that the business model was flawed.  80% Cash-Out Refinances throughout 2022 was always met with that question by at least me...now I guess we see the answer

Just don't pay someone $10 or $20K for their secret sauce anonymity package. 

I have a BRRR property that I need to rehab and looking for any special sauce anyone has been successful with on removing smoke odors?

The 'secret sauce' is finding the deal that lets the concept work.  

Spend more time in my garden, worry about growing the perfect tomatoes.