Pay a handy guy to ride with you and scout the property (just a thought) otherwise, the best use of your time will be to verify if your buying a first lien position, knowing your market well enough to know what your buying and what your exit is, and underwriting the prospective deal so you anticipate worse case.

I’m sure I could pull the old “well you’re names not on the mortgage” card, but the loss of my potential ride-or-die for an extra 800$ doesn’t seem like a very good ROI.

I am a smaller general contractor (6 employees) and we specialize in residential insurance repairs (fire, water, wind, hail) so I am very well versed in all aspects of residential construction. 

When the crash hit we were in a better position than most.So if a crash occurs, rent them. keep them rented and ride out the wave.

There is always someone around either asking for money, riding a bike, or pushing a random shopping cart that will make you feel uncomfortable. 

I think the over riding fact in todays HML  well not fact but thing of most importance to these lenders is experience.. they all want you to send them the last 5 huds you did or the 20 flips you did last year.. 

After a roller-coaster ride for the past 2 months, it appears that I'll finally be closing on my first commercial property on October 1st.Two of the three retail/office tenants in the building have leases expiring on October 31st.

John has now increased his monthly earnings from his RE investments from $1200 (SFH1) to $1500 (SFH1 + SFH2 - LOAN).As long as John screens properly and installs the right sort of tenant, he will ride this to greater prosperity. 

I don't have the stomach for the ride on individual stocks,2.

If/when I do another flip, I'll get in with this guy, or a guy like him, and just partner and ride along, adding value however I can.