The most successful loans are those that do not procrastinate and get the appraisers In ASAP so you can get over any unexpected bump in the underwriting process.

If you get in with a locked in company that's in it for the long haul, your success and being taken care of are gonna be pretty high. 

Do you have property managers and contractors who your clients have been using for over a year successfully?

Then you can rent it after repairs are made, refinance, pull money out and do it again in the same market or similar.To Your Success!

@Paul Lucenti It is common to equate acquiring more properties to scaling and many rely on buying lower tier market/neighborhood section 8 rentals to achieve this goal.

My clients and myself have found good success in Greater Cincinnati.

There's no doubt you'll find success over time!

Typically this means they will take longer to close, may not have all the information for the companies they work with, and most hard money brokers get their money by taking an existing product and adding extra points to pay their fee.What is your investor success rate?

I've had pretty good success the last couple years with a combination of house hacking and building Accessory Dwelling Units.

@James Dugan, Fort Worth has been known to crack down on PadSplits, but I do have several clients that are successfully operating there regardless.