I’ve realized I need more passive options, and have moved to a syndication and private lending.

Some private lenders will step in and fund.

Credit cards have the same limitation on the amount you can borrow and will likely end up costing more than private lenders.

Quote from @Burke Atkerson: With over a decade of real estate investing experience and over 100 flips, I now provide private money & hard money loans.

The "private money", btw, is supposed to be Arnold's own money from one of his three "private equity firms."

I am a private lender here in Atlanta.

However, there is no way to do so without risk.The Internal Revenue Services issues three (3) Private Letter Rulings (PLRs) that allowed the taxpayers to do just this.

Private Lender Partnership: Partner with a private lender or investor willing to take a second lien position to get you to 85-90% cash out.

But maybe its worth it if you don't have a place to get hard/private money for deals. 

Facebook is the last place you want to find private money. whats unfortunate is real estate professionals are still advertising to us newbies Facebook is the place to find the lender.Who said that?