Quote from @Marshall Robins: We can go up to 50% LTV as a private lender for what it's worth.

.: Hi All,Is there any way to structure a private lending arrangement so that income is considered passive (by IRS standards) and can offset accumulated schedule E losses?

Searching online for terms such as “real estate investment firms”, “real estate syndicators”, “real estate private equity” and most likely about a dozen or more other search terms should reveal the websites of many syndication sponsors.News Articles.

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

That is perfectly fine, stick to REI exposure via private lending, O etf, maybe syndications, and be largely invested in domestic & intl equities. 

Our private money lender on this flip was very reasonable through this whole process, as we had to navigate many gray areas and difficult decisions. 

Have lots of property and private lending opportunities in Nova Scotia what types of projects are you looking for?

(I guess that's what the $3K to $4K deposit is for)(3) Is it difficult to find private money @ 12% over 5 years to fund these deals?

What we do to make up for it is create a private bedroom listing to hit a different target audience to fill in some of those vacancies.

We don't practice discussing the details of private transactions publicly, thats just not good business.