I make one call, walk through the house for five minutes marking things to stay, and then leave to try and find my next deal/private funder.

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Personally if you are going for 4 flips in a year, try and find 1 or 2 good HMLs while you are searching for private money lenders who will give better terms - they will allow you the flexibility to make all cash offers which will be more attractive to sellers.Access to capital will be key as you grow so establishing relationships with the HMLs for your first few deals may help you a year or two down the road when you are finding multiple deals at once and need more capital.

For those investors here that use private money, how do you show proof of funds when submitting an offer?

I have a house with 1 hard money loan and 8 private investors.

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I had a large portfolio in the private client unit in Florida.

Now I want to start investing without my family and using private money, I have been taking some webinars about raising capital and I'm kinda lost preparing deals, analysing properties and finding private lenders.

Thanks for the feedback.I have a bachelor's degree BA: urban planning major, and I started a master's degree in facilities management, but it wasn't teaching me anything I didn't know already from my previous position, and was a private institution.

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