Partnering with Mike Hardin provided valuable local insights, making this an attractive and strategic investment for Partner Driven.

I suggest to look for local meetups in your area, these can be a great way to meet other investors, share experiences, and learn from each other.

A good idea is to accrue a capital investment reserve from operating cashflows, for such events.

My potential partner and I have agreed to split everything 50/50 and I was thinking of holding all holding/cash to close funds in escrow and run it through my LLC, but would be interested to hear how any of you structured it in a way that protected yourself in the event that one partner turns out to be problematic. 

In the event my refi appraisal comes in at full market value, I outperform the underwriting.  

Google RE centric lawyers, call the largest property management companies in the areas for lawyer rec's, or local investors or investment centric agents in the area to find a good one.

Up until the trustee sale (foreclosure auction), the home is still owned and fully controlled by the home owner.I’m assuming you’re going to be looking at off-market properties (since loan status isn’t something they advertise on the MLS so you likely wouldn’t even know if it was in default if it’s a listed property).So, in that case, you’d just negotiate a purchase agreement with the home owner and then take the contract to your local escrow/title company to open escrow. 

Go to local real estate meetups and see what investors also have a license.

You can start real estate investing, reading resources, familiarizing yourself with the Albany, GA market, setting short-term and long-term goals, preparing financially, building a team, conducting property searches, conducting due diligence, making an offer, managing property, and joining local groups.

If you don't have sponsorship, by definition you don't have a deal - full stop. in some aspects, but but I'd argue in development you have to find land and partners at the same time. you have to have a competitive advantage and local knowledge. may not apply and probably different sectors. we break development up into multiple raises like Series A, Series B, etc in venture debt and discount equity tranches based on what stage the investor comes in for higher returns it's earlier like when we are investing in engineering services etc we recapitalize and spend our money with an equity sale and recapitalization. structured finance is so interesting