It is much harder to find out who is the owner of the LLC and their private address/information.

After she left, I glanced over the forms and saw that she did not put in her SSN or Drivers Licence info.

Pay for a private professional inspection. $500 at most.

Is it best to purchase individual notes on a case-by-case basis, work with a group of private investors pooling money together or ????

Jon New, I'm sorry, I work in the private lender world, and have no knowledge of Fannie or Freddie underwriting.

Joel provided great info regarding private and hard money lenders new concerns with lending to OO borrowers due to the new laws, so that could be difficult to find.Jason provided some very good advice in working to get your scores up so you could qualify for FHA funding.

I started out originating private 1st mortgages and of course they're all performing, but even those can go non-performing because let's face it bad things happen to good people.

We have had some experience in investing, but have never used private money or hard money lenders to get into deals.

You can get an appraisal for the finished unit, use a bridge loan and or construction-rehab loan based off the ARV.So, check conventional and non-conventional, private/hard money lenders.Get credit from material suppliers, use thier money!

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