The hard money lender will also be doing the paper work etc. so you just shadow that as well.recommend that you fund 100% of the deal and avoid for your first time a co Beneficiary transaction.. ( which is basically what crowd funding is  IE bringing a bunch of small investors into one loan)...

Then I could avoid moving right now, and put my own cost of living towards paying down this property.I want to explore option 3) more.What are the CONs to option 3?

A court may call "BS" on you and treat the corporation as an attempt to avoid liability, which it is.

Alex, it is probably a contract issue you might look at with the pm if you want that in your agreement, and it may not be a great practice for the pm to do this , especially if you use a pm to avoid this very issue and have anonymity.

I'd say the biggest fear is softening up; not sticking to your guns when you know the right thing to do, but due to apathy, avoidance of conflict, etc not doing it. 

My concerns are 1) what neighborhoods should I look to buy in my area and what neighborhoods to avoid?

i dont even get chance to present my offer and the deals already shows subject to bank approval.what should i do, sometimes i get back something owner has accpet the offer and now just wait for bank approval .... this happens to me almost 80% of the time i see a short sale.what should i do in future with short sale deal, what is the safest way to present my offer to avoid listing agent kill my deal?

I wanted to start this discussion by stating that I'm sick and tired of getting approached by people recruiting for MLM companies.  The worst part--the last guy swore to me it wasn't MLM and that he was being mentored...

neat Nicole...BP has tons of info on both, and the two strategies do tend to diverge, but also think about the notion of fixing and renting out, too, perhaps the best of both strategies (adding value but avoiding some transaction costs from a sale)..

I sold my investment properties to pay off my debts and provide basic income to support my family yet the job market did not recover fast enough to avoid bankruptcy.