My question is, when you find something like this, and you don't have the funding ability(I work at a school and have TRS not a 401k, so I cannot take a loan out against it, nor do I have 20% down, but I have about 60k in equity in my home, but the lenders I have talked to will not do a HELOC in my state, point is I can flip, but not buy and hold with my own financing) and you need a partner on the deal, how do you protect yourself from telling them about the property and them just taking it?  

Other than that, you'll have to either pay down the mortgage and refinance again, or try to raise that rent to make the cash flow positive.

Thank you John, how do I go about getting transnational funds?

I wanted to look into getting some funding but i am not able to do so because of credit and other various things.

I know the interest rate for a mortgage is Pegged to the 10 yr note, but what would the interest rate be if the Feds raise the interest rate up .5 this year September rate hike and maybe December/January (.75 total)

A mutual fund or investments has maintenance and up keep costs as well but what truly is more risky and a better ROI .

Personally, I would make an agreement to fund small maintenance issues out of Petty Cash, not to exceed $xxx dollars per repair and then require an Itemized Purchase Order (both labor & parts) for repairs exceeding the petty cash limit.

hello to all. just a quick description of myself. i am a real estate investor working in the western New York area. i have been doing this in this area for 12 years now, with many successes. i am a licensed home inspector, work as a handyman for a local property management company, and currently own several investment houses. i can safely say that i know the area quite well. given my home inspectors experience, i feel very confident in my ability to judge the condition of a house and evaluate the rehab to bring it back to a marketable condition. having a degree in accounting, i feel quite confident in my ability to manage the numbers part of the transaction as well. having recently passed a course in furnace installation and repair, i feel i can safely replace appliances such as the furnace if need be and a water heater if need be, saving large sums of money in the rehab. he is what i am looking for. i am looking for a HML to fund my latest find. a 4 bedroom, one bath house with two stall garage in a family neighborhood that i currently own 2 houses in and have purchased more in the same neighborhood in the passed. 

We will wholesale if we dont like the area, if the numbers dont meet our criteria or if we just dont have the capital to fund the deal. 

In the past we have approached the other owner about tenting for termites and he has always declined due to lack of funds.