For farm rural property loans, will be harder to come by if you want to get money out of your property, a good rule is to plan on keeping a land property for at least 10 years.If you goal is more cash flow related, you might want to look at buying single family, duplex, triplex or quadplex properties, these are the easiest properties to finance, and there are hundreds if not thousands of lenders in this space. 

It's a false sense of security anyway and could save you money in the long run.

Task:-Goal: Purchase 5 properties (~10 doors) by end of 2025Action:-My plan is to use traditional financing under my name to access the best rates then transition to using either HELOC/DSCR/Hard Money.

I guess if someone gets  a copy of the actual investment docs they can see what they are doing..

. $15k Fee Justification: I’m trying to understand what the $15k fee actually covers, especially since it appears that Martel and the assigned team also take a cut from every deal (contractors, project managers, lender kickbacks, etc.).

At that moment I realized there is money in this.

2nd liens are the best way to lose your money, are you lending personally, or are you working as a broker? 

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CA might be different and where you generally need accreditation is when you are using other people's money and promising returns.  

I would like to acquire these properties somehow and fix them up as someone who actually cares about this community, but I'm not sure if it's possible.