If you have someone you look up to in your local market that's successful do everything you can to sit down with them and pick their brain on creative action steps to take.Best of luck on this journey!

The writer is predicting the future, based on current information.  

Since I don’t have many assets or a lot of cash on hand, I’ll need to be creative and strategic.

I personally have not done this but it was a creative finance way to fund a down payment with none of your own money.

It sounds like this might have been some sort of "creative financing" scenario where the buyer has $0 but is trying to cobble together 3 liens and 8 JV partners to buy something they cant afford.

1) Rarely paying asking price or even "market price" for a property.2) Understanding how they may be able to reposition a poorly managed property for increased cashflow and value.3) Looking for creative financing, so they don't have to deal with a bank for a purchase loan.4) Understanding ROI, Cash-on-Cash, NOI, etc. and using those numbers to determine HOW MUCH they should offer on a property to meet their taget performance numbers.Funny, appropriate, recent interaction with a plumbing company.

@Kerry Baird I'm not sure the specific DTI or metrics they use for the LOC, but they seem to be pretty open to working on creative options to get the deals done. 

If you’re looking for creative ways to maximize your outreach, feel free to connect or drop a comment.

can't" usually means there's something they don't know or is not being creative enough, I'll plant a seed that I received from my CPA that I won't butcher because I'm not a CPA.

There’s a lot of potential for creative strategies.