Build Credibility with Private LendersSecuring funding is just as important as finding deals.

After 45 + years as a real estate investor, broker, lender, fund manager and syndicator, I’ve become aware that the “dream” of many investors and investor “hopefuls” is to be able to generate enough cash flow to live off their real estate holdings and accumulate enough wealth to make “work” optional.

Home prices always reflect how desirable a neighborhood is. 

-> Funding: you can consider as options mortage brokers who can scout/compare the best offers in the market and you can also consider public funding programmes that exists as an incentive to renovate and bring houses to the market, either for tourism or traditional rental.As an example, on the traditional rental there is a funding program ("Arrendamento Acessivel") that funds up to 90% of the project and can be used to cover part of the renovation costs, as well as, part of the purchasing.

I know for example we can fund up to 90% of the purchase and 100% of the rehab when we're funding the purchase and the rehab.

Whether you've lent money for an individual project, or you've invested in some sort of fund / group, I'd like to hear about your experience! 

It's a spacious 4br 2.5 bath with finished basement in desirable school district in a B Class neighborhood.

They said that if the contracting buyer didn't have the funds to buy at the time of agreeing on price with the seller - it was under a false scenerio - since they were not going to buy the house from the start.

Labor, supply chain (we are on an island) and red tape: from offers and closing, to funding to permits.  

A) The $40K cash on hand was not including my emergency fund and merely represented what I wanted to stick to as a low ~10% DP or to be used for a small refresh/reno.