Here are my answer to the "famous 4" questions. 1.My favourite real estate book is <The Millionaire Real Estate Investor>. 2.My favourite none real estate book is <The Pumpkin Plan> by Mike Michalowicz. 3.My hobby in life is basketball.4.The ability to overcome fear makes a difference in real estate investing Wish you best luck in your investor!

@Zac LindquistThis might not be the best strategy to use at the moment since there are so many obstacles that would need be over come in order to arbitrage now.

Imputed rates are not hard to overcome, market rate interest for the type of loan made, but the terms of the deal can be modified. you can also defer interest to a future dat and then sell short, maybe market values dropped to justify the deal.

How did I overcome it?  

luckily, he's got the money to overcome the struggles of making the property pass inspections for the section 8 program.

This is basically private money lending.Your idea seems like this would work but the challenge you are likely to have is that most note buyers are going to want to see some seasoning unless you have a personal relationship with them.Those objections might be overcome by creating a 5 year note and selling just the first two years WITH an option for the lender to buy the three remaining years at the back end.  

Can be a lot of expense and yes the barriers to get conventional financing can be difficult to overcome.  

Right now I'm looking to partner just on this first deal to help me overcome the inertia of just sitting here looking at "potential" deals.

Any adverse changes to the area recently?

I recently got my real estate licence and became a realtor because I thought that was going to be easier to do my first deal when I had access to the MLS but now I realized that my big obstacle is doubt and indecision and I have to overcome that.