What most, in my opinion, fail to realize is that as a property owner, you are providing a service to a customer, and as such, must be in a customer service oriented mindset.

Would you mind if you have free time to Private Message me and elaborate on your Marketing?

That is all private and SB capital and it will follow (not lead) as soon as housing set's the trend.

Most of the purchase will be through private money but we have the ability to have decent cash ready to go at the auction.Thank you in advance.

If you're looking to wholesale and/or rehab, some local "hard" money (I say local because it's cheaper than national) or especially private money are your very best avenues. 

There are some caveats we would need to work through; I have two brothers that technically each have a third ownership per the trust (this would work out to 25% ownership for them each based on the current math since I already 'own' [on a private loan agreement with my parents] 25%).

What I do like about them is that since they are a public company, and not privately held I do have access to information about them. 

My cash reserves are somewhat low and so I would like to learn more about the up and downsides of using private lenders and hard money lenders.

All though listed as Cash Only deals - you can still use non traditional financing, such as a hard money lender or a private lender.

I customized it and just made changes as we went.