You can attend all the REIAs and read all the books and sign up for all the conferences, and spend all the money, and you are will never really know you can do it until you do.Over 20 years in real estate in various forms and roles, action will beat out intelligence or education or even network 100% of the time.  

There are less expensive hard money lenders out there. 

We utilized the down payment program and use our own money to fix it up.

I start by telling them we have a lot of money tied up in the property, and we've been burned by folks that wanted us to believe the best of them.

My current situation is that I always flip with other people’s money.

Hi @Alex Lee I would avoid 203K loan and work with conventional renovation loan based on knowing you'll be forced to use 203k certified contractors which will cost more money and offer inflated pricing because they must follow 203k guidelines. 

Training bizz is a HUGE money bizz..

Hard money for acquisition and I financed the rehab myself.

IE motivate them for money. 

At that point we hired an independent appraiser and the numbers came back good and the hard money lender agreed to use them.