OK  If you dont have 700+ credit and can not get some unsecured loans/cards to flip at a much smaller unsecured rate/payment then use hard money, if the alternative is to sit at your day job wishing you were not there. 

They are usually pretty good at describing what techniques and materials they would use.

@Anja Wehrmann  going to throw you a curve ball.with the new crowd funding rules to so be here... maybe short term debt deals with the top crowd funding shops  were you can make 9 to 12% would be an alternative to taking the risk in actually owning A rental

I specialize in SBA and Alternative Commercial Loans.

@Kevin Young I really like your re-zoning technique.

Alternatively, explore the myriad of real estate crowdfunding platforms, and invest in several of the properties offered there, from SFRs in Dallas to huge student housing developments in California, to Class A office space in Manhattan.

My technique is to keep geographically separated markets on separate analysis tools (different spreadsheets).  

TravisUse your broker to list the property this is a good alternative, most brokers would be happy to keep the deal in house and if the escrow and negotiations are in house why would they not Jim

Alternatively, if i sell it i could make a a small (15K) profit and reinvest the 65K in another rental property. 

Alternatively, are there any other strategies I may be missing that could be helpful in combating all cash offers outside of HELOC to delay financing?