Knowing other investors is a crucial aspect to growth because they are often the models you don't have in your real life.

My perceived risk at the time whether, right, wrong, or indifferent, the reward for me just wasn’t there.Good to know, definitely an aspect I will have to dig more into.

If you have any bandwidth to discuss that aspect with me, I would love to pick your brain about you source deals and what is working for you in this current market.

An LLC has no effect negatively or positively on how a full doc lender will calculate your income.

I am a first-time investor and am looking for a location (hopefully) where I can get decent appreciation while not having the risk of crazy negative cash flow (like one sees when doing the math on opportunities in Seattle, for example).

I suspect they are using someone else's identity or hiding something negative from their landlord.It is not uncommon for people to have good credit but still have an eviction or other problems with a previous landlord.

If its a New Western deal though I am extremely dubious .. those require extra due diligence as the deals I see coming from them one needs to verify every aspect of what your being told.

If someone posts something negative about me that is not true and I request them to retract it and they do not, they will be getting sued for enough that they will never consider doing it again.  

I couldn't find any threads on BP that mention him in a negative light, is he another charlatan?

Another alternative is to have a negative cash flow by putting down less.