Distressed commercial assets, as most good real estate, come from building relationships over years, not from buying a program, getting a good SMS system, and making a flowchart on how to be the best.You are  trying to skip the steps that all long-term investors have mastered, knowing other investors and leveraging deal flow between each other because the trust is there.

If you learn how much everything really costs to repair, you will have a line out the door of buyers.The second part would be to be right on the money on a real ARV.

Minut seems to be less expensive, but according to Wynd's website, they say Minut's smoke monitoring is in Beta and doesn't track marijuana smoke.

The benefit to HELOCs is that you generally have an alloted time period where you are only required to make interest only payments (then it will be amortized after). 

Heloc or DSCR Yes, if you are looking for a flip, you'd want a hard money loan (somethings called RTL or bridge loan), DSCR Loans would only be for buying turnkey rentals

You’d be shocked by how little actual screening many PMC’s do!

@Alex PenaI recommend finding local meetups to attend. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521I have found all of my best connections at local meetups.Ill be at the beers and deals meetup tonight!

Fortunately, you will be able to to a 1033 exchange into new property and avoid any tax on the gain. 

Your zoning should be ok, but you want to do everything by the book (which can be costly) to percent future insurance claims or injury claims in an unpermitted basement living space. 

Hi all,I'm sure some have heard of the properties being built by Clifton Homes:Location: 9440 N Adrian AveThey are a fully vertically integrated operation (prop mgmt, construction, and financing).This is their deal:Cash in:  $50K6-8 months later:One time refinance to put a long term mortgage on it at or around 75% which gets your $50k back + 16%.