Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

HELOCS can be leveraged in consideration of a short-term project, but in my opinion you want to avoid leveraging one property to buy and hold another for several reasons.  

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

End of day lender wants to make sure they are not left holding the bag when you get down to the final assets

You can't charge deposits or rent, but you can hold a renter accountable for an animal that misbehaves.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

There are hard money lenders out there who can help with fix n flips so I would start conversations with different lenders to get a sense of terms and interest rates.I would also prepare yourself for the long game.

Think of the card as a piece of advertising If your working with agents and just buying and holding then you probably don’t need them

But don't take yourself too seriously, make it a game you play for fun and profit.it is your job as an investor to get to their base-line price - you can only do that by asking questions and getting to the right answers.Questions: how long on the market and how - agents or FSBO?

For instance, if I manage to raise private capital to fund a deal and purchase a successful rental property, how would this actually benefit ME when I have no skin in the game (i.e. money of my own invested)?