Ideally, you're paying for the profit an asset is creating, not could create.

Using your personal credit card is not ideal as it will negatively effect your credit score and your DTI.

@Tim Sipowicz if you are planning on refinancing you wont have to worry about getting your reserves stuck in equity for long since 75% of your ARV appraisal will ideally be high enough to cover the down payment + rehab + closing costs + holding costs.   

I’m just wondering if you had the ideal 25k that is so hard to get that Scott Trench talks about in Set for Life, what would you do with it?

My husband and I opted to buy in the beach areas of Guanacaste, after visiting both regions, because we thought the remoteness and longer wet season in the southern zone would make a house harder to rent, and also shorten the ideal times of year for us to visit.

Ideally it would be on any disclosure.  

Ideally, only get paid a success fee based on how much they help you save?

It's intended for long-term hold periods (5-10 years) and allows non-accredited investors, so IRA money would seem to be the ideal source of capital.

I would recommend being prepared (comp rents) to approach it as potentially being a buy and hold situation, with the ideal outcome being your fix and flip if that is your preference. 

Obviously the ideal is greater return and greater cash flow.The refi is an expense but it lets you keep the properties you have now and lets you take 70-75% of your equity to go into something else.