I've taken my fair share of sub2's which is actually more creative so if it works for someone, more power to them.This is very different, though.

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Necessary paper work to prepare before hand?

If you have so so knowledge and someone asks you a question you'll get nervous, and lost confidence is not what you want when presenting deals.Andy, you're right, the more confidence you show the better you will be at this stuff, especially if you are pitching creative deals.

This is followed by a comment that if the owner asks to tell him a little bit about your company to be prepared with some thirty-second speech about it.My question is, would you recommend to start a company if you are an individual investor to appear more legitimate?

No bueno.The only "creative" things I've thought of is to either try and get the price closer to $300,000--maybe by going straight to the owner if I can find them, and offering 300,000 FSBO (when/if listing expires).

I wanted to have a quick brainstorming session and get all of our creative juices flowing.

Also is there anywhere someone can point me to on how to prepare to ask for funding.

Luckily, with some very creative terms, I just landed a couple seeking to lease-to-own, so I will be able to above break even, but not for 2 years.I have found Waterbury to be a rough place to live.  

@Daniel Mills Yeah very true, I'm preparing to purchase and rehab my first property that's why I asked!