Also, if you’re a private lender yourself, feel free to chime in—I’d love to hear from you!

If you are apprehensive of the market, and believe it will get worse before it gets better, you might consider going to cash, doing a private loan to a flipper on a project where it would be a screaming deal if you had to foreclose, and taking a look in 9 or 18 months. 

The biggest thing is finding a great investor agent who can help bridge the gap and is looking out for your best interest.

There are far too many regulations, the transaction is a much longer process, and we are talking about someone's biggest purchase.

Also, if this is something that you are looking for in a hard money lender, you might want to look into more of a private money lending model verse anything else. 

I do like the software portion just concerned about paying for the "Pro" amount to have access to POF letters and "private funding."

First, let's be very clear here.The mortgage your speaking of is a private agreement between the seller and the lender.

They will supposedly first pay you back your initial earnest money with interest within four weeks of signing their NEW RELEASE AGREEMENTS as a show of good faith if you get in touch with their attorney (send me a private message so I can send you instructions to get in contact with their attorney), and then the remaining outstanding deposit with interest within two months after that.

Private Money vs Hard Money:Primate money is negotiable.

The biggest differences between residential and commercial:  Scalability, financing are very different, property taxes may be different, Insurance is definitely different.