You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

Or, you'll get so well known that other investors will want to fund your deals.Below is a piece we wrote about how to build your network and search for deals.

You can also check meetup.com or search Facebook for real estate investment groups, clubs, or meetings in your area.

Search them online and check out their websites.Meetups.

Here are a few suggestions on how you can maximize the wealth of information available: Check out the blogs and podcasts, or take advantage of the search feature (magnifying glass).

If it is built from scratch with a full fire box, then most types of wood can be burned.  

Depending on what he is offering you i searched the address with the secretary of state. 

If we bite off people’s heads when they admit disaster, it suppresses legitimate issues with these techniques.Just for context there is a lot of history with the OP and some of us on here going back years (like the thread I linked to above from about a year ago and several others if you use the search function with his name) with him minimizing the risks of how he was structuring these transactions and some of us being cautionary, warning him that exactly what happened here could happen, which made him defensive and dismissive. 

Yes, because Private Money infers that you are in a negotiable deal where your project can be outside the box and you can negotiate unique terms with a private individual - that - or a big box lender with strict rules and guidelines. 

This is often shown in the distributions box, and reduces your taxable basis in the deal.