Out of state and institutionally funded can be tough to close at times. 

Scott's book in 2020 or 2021 and found the estimate sheet to be fairly close to what I was paying at that time.  

@johnmason, I have completed a BRRRR over Covid but that was in a different market since then I moved into a more expensive market due to my full time job so finding a deal has been a bit more difficulty

I was thinking I'd buy an acre of land that has city electricy and water available, and pay that off so that it can be used for collateral one house at a time.  

I know one option is to wade into the waters of private funding.

Be sure to use a good background check and go through it - I use smartmove but there are a lot of different ones and I think BP has one as well.

Also, rather than taking a large amount of money and investing into one single directly owned property, I can split it up into much smaller chunks across many different passive investments.

For creative financing, one option could be to approach the seller about a seller-financed deal. 

Unless you do them all at one time, you have origination and closing costs on each house…so perhaps you pay up front to split the land.Obviously, I am not a developer and someone who is may chime in.  

The shortest time I experienced is between 3-90 days when they are in per-foreclosure.