If you search the site with the term 401k you should come up with a very recent thread full of fantastic information.

they can and will ask for some small money on the second or third call or step of the program.this is 100% NOT REALthere are NO LENDERS doing 100% loans at 5%  I can't even get 5% from my banks on full doc loans I do .. they can and will steal your indentity as well.stick to local HML or lenders you can meet in person and have personal references... 

Hello all,I am a Sacramento part time real estate investor and a full time real estate photographer.

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I'm considering some PM lending to an old friend who's flipping full time ( not sure about it yet, so feel free to warn me about friend/lend danger!). 

Make Sure to go to a hard money lender and get pre-approved for transactional funding, this will make you a legitimate investor, they will collect a fee of the deal, the hard money lenders will help you move the deal if you put one on contract and you will have their full support (They want to Lend on those properties as bad as you want to make an assignment fee). 

We have a 4-plex under full rehab right now, and only select neighborhoods can support this.

I would like to find a full time job, real estate investors, and real estate deals before making the move.

With the extra income from my full-time job, and if my calculations are correct (which they are) I could have the house paid off at exactly the time we move out in July 2018.

I have always done my own GC'ing but never for a full blown foundation, I would definitely be comfortable with it but as you stated I dont want to pay for it later.