These strategies never go out of style!

Also renovating consistent with the style is important.

Of course, it depends on the style of the house too, rooflines with a lot of cuts, etc., pop outs, roof top decks, all add costs, the closer to a box you build the lower the cost.

I do not fall under the "if it's not broke don't fix it" style, but rather, if it is worth the investment to improve something (ie it will help appeal to more buyers, sell the house quicker, or increase my ROI) than we will make the upgrade.

So, a ranch without basement that's 200 sq.ft. different would get an adjustment of $8,000, not $16,000.This gets really tricky if the styles are different, so appraisers will try very hard to find houses that are the same style.If you have a hard finding comps, the house is not a good candidate for a fix and flip.

We personally have found that our lifestyle lends best towards the 'buy and hold' style.

You may also find that instead of 12 houses you can end up with 100 loft-style condos, retail, a park, and whatever else.

Its key that the style (ranch, two story, etc) is the same, the neighborhood is the same and other factors (busy street or other pluses or minuses) are similar.

Well there is more capital chasing loans than there are loans, so I would say that goes to the Seller.Loans are sold via auction style sales where a pool is issued to multiple parties and they bid and one bidder wins.

There are quite a number of posts on this topic already:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/49/topics/91762-lending-clubhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/49/topics/74756-peer-to-peer-lending-siteshttp://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/49/topics/80557-review-of-p2p-lending-sites-bp-style