Which will bring plenty of other investors and general business to the area.

My business partner and I have started to looking for deals for fixing and flipping sfh.

All work, no pay.If you want to make money, stop trying to chase get-rich-quick schemes or working with shady businesses.

I've had businesses for years dealing with credit card payments and refunds are simple. 

@Claudio Garcia Zuniga If you are local to the property and only own a few of them it probably makes more sense to manage them yourself if you think you have the capacity to run it like a business.

I was trying to figure out how to scale my rental business when a friend of mine who had several rentals told me of his program to pay down his highest interest rate loan, with cash flow and adding other money and then applying that free-and-clear cash flow to paying off the next loan and having 2 free and clear props.

I our business plan we allot a year for plan approval, usually for a 2-4 that's enough. 

Overall behind in the process by about a year - just catching up now & could use some (paid) advice on how best to navigate the complications -Probably an hour or two's consulting, at the most.

This is tough.Depends on how fuzzy you want the business/family line to be.The only thing I'd be absolutely sure of is that your money has more tangible security than being a "personal loan" EVEN IF you cut him a break on cost. 

This is my business since 2011.