If you check those things and the numbers are still in line I would pull the trigger.

I need a hard loan or a partner the guy i was working with keeps backing out of deals, i think he's afraid to pull the trigger.

If you invest in the stock market and then find a real estate deal to invest in, prior to selling the brownstone, then pulling the money out in less than a year would trigger short term capital gains/losses.- Have you considered a DAF (donor advised fund). 

The day before I start I go through with a little bucket of mudd and fill in all of the holes so that they can dry overnight.

It will dry up VERY FAST. 

You may want to keep them as two unit properties rather than sfr's.Also, you may want to refinance them as 1 commercial property and keep your powder dry for some other properties down the line that make more sense to finance conventionally. 

If im able to use the annual fee as a business expense then I am gonna do it but ill need to wait until i have a big enough expense lined up to hit the bonus on one of them before i pull the trigger on that. 

@Alexandra Garced hey Alexandra I've had clients use the VA Reno loan and almost pulled the trigger on it myself but ended up needing to go hard money to make the deal work.

I don’t know how the 97% failure rate was calculated but my guess is that the types of people that pay for those courses may be too scared to pull the trigger and therefore never get started, thereby falling into the “fail” category.

Any concerns on having a new bridge loan now, and hoping the market will not have an event in the short term that could temporarily dry up financing funds (agency and other) making refi near impossible; or any event that basically makes it hard / impossible to ride the storm as the longer term debt may better afford?