I feel like I did the math a year and a half ago and it took longer running the money through a HELOC...

Most real estate boards require agents within the board to cooperate and split commissions in half.

Again, this is an area you can do yourself but it may be where they are willing to pickup some of the legwork as you inch closer to a purchase. 

I'll add:Charging Late Fees on re-performing loans and keeping half for themselves.   

I need the advice of the more experienced people on here.Four and a half months ago, I closed on a foreclosure.

This is a property that I have been paying down since 2007, I originally purchased it to live in one half and rent out the other, but then I ended up moving away and now it's just a rental.

My strengths, low debt-low enough to payoff half in next several months, resiliency-I did door to door for almost 10 years, good credit-700+, time, energy, passion.My goals...

Just in the past year and half I partnered with a new investor on a $4.2M commercial building and another investor on a $3M office building. 

I want to do half acre lots so 20 houses.

With the COVID scare, stock market crashing a bit (for any savvy long term investor, who cares, but regular folk get scared any time they see red), election causing uncertainly, it is inevitable that people will look to sell their extra property, and also likely scare away half the buyers.