Listen, I know you have to make money as no business can be sustained without income. 

Repairs should be 10%You can get rid of Capex though, as no one really worries abot it on SFR.How much research have you done on property taxes?

Purchase price: $270,000 Cash invested: $50,000 Sale price: $440,000 Purchased SFD from Wholesaler at $270,000, Used hard money rehab loan.

It's pretty obvious that they want money, but I guess how much, only time will tell.

The deal fell apart, and not only did we lose the $5,000 assignment fee, but we also lost the $5,000 we had loaned to the sellers, who admitted they knew about the second loan but never disclosed it to us.When we asked the sellers to return the money, they told us it was already spent on Christmas presents and moving expenses, with no intention of repaying us.This experience was a painful wake-up call.

An example of this would be mixing your personal money and LLC money in the same bank account.3.

What are the must knows for raising capital for private money or hard money lending?

I would talk to your tax person make sure you do this right for both people on this transaction .

I would love to hear insights from people who are doing higher marketing volumes and what high level strategies are working (I know you can't reveal all your tricks).The truth of the matter, is that since real estate investing and picking up houses for pennies on the dollar, now requires no money (except to pay the guy selling the program), no experience necessary and is guaranteed to make you rich, with little effort and no risk or problems, with immediate results, that now everybody is doing it.  ;-)

HomeGuard is not cheap so I want to make sure this is worth spending money on.