As it gets cheaper, with hard money at 8.5% - that's the interest rate on loans for apartment buildings, (California loans for investment, not consumer purposes) more people are using hard money lenders as a source for financing rental or investment properties.

I've done a fair amount of HUD bidding, and purchased three properties in 2013, so I know how time consuming the bidding process can be.Regards,Mark

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I'm already researching many parcels of land and some modest SFR's.

If you hire management they will consume most of your cash flow.Sell and buy in your new backyard.

Your agreement with the company providing the reports usually states that you are not permitted to give copies of consumer reports to the person being screened.

Now, in some areas it can get nasty, time consuming and if the deal isn't that fair or not in compliance the court can do a cram down, write down the amounts due, so a lender can get tagged. :)

I carry no consumer debt and still have my day job in which I can work essentially an unlimited amount of overtime to come up with quick cash.

I was told getting a variance will be difficult, time consuming and will require approvals of the community board.

I know in CA recent state laws designed to "protect the consumer" have made it nearly impossible for mortgage brokers to work with non-accredited trust deed investors thereby, in my view, releasing them to fall victim to real estate investors preying (wittingly or unwittingly) on the unsophisticated.