I've been shopping the market and lining up finances but could use some input from there.

I'd love to grab a bite and talk shop sometime.

But maybe I'll shop around some more.

There's the meeting at the coffee shop on the 26 from 1-4pm that I'm going to.

They tell you that you will get different "accounts" and "line of credits" which will add up to say 50000 or 100000 you requested as a "line of credit" but they also let you know that there will be "few" pulls to shop for the "best" deal. all that sounds good when you deal with this for the first time. but the thing you will not know is the fact that they are getting you couple of credit cards and few line of credits. yes it is shady and really in the grey area of legality. 

I am shopping around this point.   

should i go to the bank and secure financing then shop or how should i go about starting? 

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I'm learly of shopping it too much, with the risk of dinging my credit in the process. 

Especially if it's brokered hard money, where you need to shop various end-lenders with various differing criteria.