Do you have any suggestions for hard money, private, or even conventional lenders who might be willing to finance a property purchase outside of the country?

@Collin HendersonI think the best move is to find a private money lender to loan you the money for the rehab, then refinance into a conventional loan.

Where I am in Texas if it is a normal loan from normal bank, they step in the day before the sale or morning of the sale and get it resolved and the property never ends up in the sale.If the loan has small balance, or is some kind of private money loan or I would say unsophisticated lender then some chance it goes to sale.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Your Lender My suggestion to find #2 & #4 would be to go to the top of this page and click on FIND AN AGENT & FIND A LENDER.

I'm currently looking for my first deal so It's hard to imagine what to put in credibility packet when all the skills I have are not real estate related.I guess what I'm asking is how do you make people like lenders and other investors believe in you as much as you do?

How do these compare?

Getting started I wouldn't avoid single family homes, there are more of them, they cost less comparatively, and as Greg stated they are just less complex.

Private lender How did you add value to the deal?

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