The property has 6 individual apartment homes on one lot. 

Obviously, I need to improve my lead generation to find more motivated sellers but the subject of price lead to do some reading on different financing options.

I would definitely start with listening to the bigger pockets podcast, very good source of information, ideas, and motivation :)

Is $2000 enough money to keep him motivated if the job goes over schedule/budget?

People also use them when they want to fund a big project, but need to gather funds from other individuals/sources and hold them in escrow until enough has been collected to move forward.

Too much competition.Get a list from the city or county of housing court violations and youwill find highly motivated owners.

I have turned and rehabbed over 3,000 units for other companies which I imported millions of dollars of products for these rehabs.

There's a lot of product hitting the market in the next 2 years, but still very good deals to get into. 

Still trying to figure that one out :-)This point was really crystalized last year in a thread.. nice young couple in I think Slidel LA  .. they went on and on how they were getting leads but had not closed any deals because sellers would not come down. but they got their good friend the real estate broker a half a dozen listings.. so I am thinking man you spend all this money to get these leads then hand them to a broker.. and we all know brokers by law cant pay non licensed individuals referral fees.. 

I mainly was needing help deciding on whether to start a fund or raise equity on a deal by deal basis and where to start raising funds (HNW individuals, RIA/placement agent, Family offices, PE, Institutions) Below are my summary notes.