$60k down from liquid cash and traditional 30 year fixed How did you add value to the deal?

@Marcus Auerbach I agree I wasn’t expecting this price tag either I just had the first quote and this was from more of a residential service business -I’m sure with high marketing costs passed on to traditional homeowner customers.

I've heard about hard money, traditional, HELOCs, etc. and it makes my head spin!

Message me directly and I can share our overview video so you can see the advantages over traditional turnkey and regular rentals.Interesting model.  

Being a young family fresh out of college, our student loans have strained our credit to the point where traditional lending is not an option.

side yard could use a fresh load of gravel to add no-mud parking (how much would this cost roughly?)

The most successful investors I know found either private lending sources allowing them to avoid the time involved in the traditional mortgage process or JV partners for the sources of down payment money.

As an example: Did anyone make a switch from their traditional W2 job (unrelated to real estate) and move into an "approved" real estate professional role? 

I've spoken to an attorney and am still about as clear as mud. 

Traditional conventional loan Lessons learned?