In fact, some of the best opportunities in real estate come from properties that others overlook—distressed homes with potential that just need the right investor to bring them back to life.If you’ve been in the game long enough, you know that distressed properties can offer huge upside, but they also come with their own set of challenges.

My family makes a joke about how those items aren't "Nickproof") At this point we decided to call it and come back tomorrow. 

Hi Jayce, we got the seller to carry back the portion of the down payment and the bank to finance the 1st position on the rest.

In fact, most just print new shares to get billions to invest when stock price is high and buy the shares back when price is low.

If you cash flow $1K per month for 36 months, and then sell with the ability to pull back your original investment, would you consider that a win?

Find a good lawyer you can make a relationship with to have in your back pocket should you need to sue, use strong contracts, use work tracking apps like busybusy, always have a couple of different contractors on speed dial so you can fire them and replace them immediately. you've got to be bullish, have strong goals in mind.

if its a rebrand of do hard money look at old threads on BP.. these guys while not a scam many that posted on BP lost their 2300.00 because no deals were ever good enough and so they gave up and lost the deposit.. back a few years ago it was 3k.. great bizz model make 3k and and dont fund anything or very few according to others that posted.

Quote from @Jessie Dillon: one thing that you can do is have the seller transfer the deed to a living trust that they're the sole beneficiary of, and call the bank to give them a heads up that they're doing it for estate planning purposes. then, a month or more later, buy the property sub-to, and change the beneficiary of the trust. the bank can not see who owns a trust, and if they ever come back and question it, you can just swap the beneficiaries again, show the bank that the seller is still the owner, then swap it back again when they buzz off. this is one of many reasons it's so important to keep a good relationships with the seller if you're buying this way. you have to work together on some stuff.In summary: fraud. 

There's talk of rolling back some of Dodd Frank with the new administration, so we'll see.

Purchase price: $645,000 Cash invested: $516,000 80% cash purchase.2,437 sq ft Duplex, with 3b 2b for the front unit (1331), 4b 2b for the back unit (1333).