However, hard money lenders step in to finance these deals quickly for investors.With the above said, a hard money lender will usually prefer to lend on pure flips.

Its impossible to buy at rock bottom except by pure luck.

Is it purely numbers, no matter what the property looks like?

@Vinny Gaines Long gone are the days of PURE equity lending by most reputable HML..

@Alexander Pirhonen  This is purely a Buy & Hold.

Estate planning is very complex and a lot of people focus purely on numbers and forget the range of emotions that come with a death.

A hard money lender saying to split the profits if u come up with 2500...sounds like a sad deal, the reason u go to them is to borrow money not make them money, to pay them back with some interest & u make money off it.I wud decline that but I wud be interested to hear what others have to say as I havent go that far yet, but purely based on knowledge I wud keep looking!

Now my dilemma,  A property does not bring income, it is a pure equity play right now.  

The first house I bought purely for investment, I was mid thirties. 

I don't count on making any money via appreciation of our properties there - it's purely a long-term cash flow investment