I feel like loan sponsors would only work with big time players.

Most importantly you need to convey confidence and assurance you are a player and not just wasting their time.

Much of the real innovation in this area is being led by consumer technology and the traditional players have been slow to adopt for many reasons.

Some good BP folks made turnkey-reviews.com recently to help investors get feedback on the players out there.

I know of many smaller players that never could get the deals done... because of equity requirements and or other terms

The list goes on and on.The challenge for the incumbent player is that these technologies do often start out small. 

For someone who is new, I would get a license and list property for 12 months, know values, know players. 

I found having a website and advertising for borrowers was very tedious and you wasted a ton of time on folks that you needed to educate and or were just shopping you.. by going direct to the known closing attorneys and getting personal intro's to the bigger players we were able to establish some really great relationships with borrowers who appreciated what we could do for them . 

I now have a credit score of 800, have enough money to cash buy 3+ homes & because of my job I cannot be financed.I am a professional poker player & file taxes as a professional gambler.

We gain one major economic boost and lose a major player (Krystal).