You’ll see the appraisal that you may have access to and what it sold for was more than inline.

The seller offered financing with 20% down, which I used to buy the place.After starting construction and realizing it was going to cost more than expected, I approached a small local bank that knew the property and would offer the rehab financing. 

Maybe an investor is flipping a lot of properties and you could offer to pick up and deliver materials to his crews, clean the work sites every night, bring his crew lunch, or whatever.Find a way to make yourself useful to them, and they will reciprocate.

Also, I just read that the the 2024 lifetime gift limit is $13.61 million and I will NEVER approach that amount.

A lot of stuff I handled myself.

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Read this: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...Second, compensation is always issued to the person working.

There is a lot of conflicting info online in regards to these situations. 

That has driven a lot of DFW investors to our market but it's still relatively affordable for investors to get started here. 

As another poster mentioned rates are lower than they've been in the previous 18+ months but unless some very surprising economic data comes out between now and when you did your refi it seems unlikely that rates are going up in the short term and there is at least a decent chance that rates drop a little more before then.