For example: Individuals, C Corps (including RIC's, and REIT's), Partnerships, Common Trust Funds, Qualified Settlement Funds, Disputed Ownership Funds, etc.3.

I'm happy to make a connection with a lender that can explain the different mortgage products that would allow you to save on closing costs.

Different lenders offer different loan products which also can assist with offsetting those cost you are coming up short on.

I am getting more comfortable with speaking to these individuals over the phone the more I do it and even meeting up with people for coffee to talk in more detail. 

The rehab is on a construction loan product and when the appraiser went to the property, he expressed some very serious interest in it.

@Larry Joshua Thank you for the motivation, I appreciate it.

Then you need to find some motivated sellers.

If not, you need to start networking to get some good referrals.Get advice from an attorney and CPA on how to best structure  your business entity based on your individual and collective situations. 

. -- for me, more important than anything, was a motivation factor.

So again it's up to the individual investors specific set of circumstances, goals, and their tolerance level for debt.