How did you finance this deal?

It usually works out if you have a great property because people will say "wow this is an amazing property for a killer deal" and youll end up with a glowing first few reviews if it pans out. then you are off to the races

You don't want to cash-out refi and then be sitting on cash costing you 7% while you search for a deal.

Beal Real Estate helps our clients find the best commercial and residential off market and listed deals available.

Many times they will claim it's wonderful and then try to hide their worst deals by only showing completed deals.

If a Designer or Contractor is proposing to remove a wall and does not think to check the structural integrity of said wall, then they are no one you should be dealing with.

When you say you want to prioritize cash flow over equity, you want to watch out for people honing in on that and selling you "good cash flow" deals which will be in D neighborhoods and will come with high capital expenditures and harder tenancies.

Purchase price: $850,000 Cash invested: $500,000 Sale price: $2,250,000 Purchased , knocked down, built new from ground up What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

The good ones will have access to off-market deals. 

Unless this is some type of homerun deal, which I assume it isn't if the mortgage is upside down, then why bother?