It isn’t overly complicated but taking action is key.

Greg, Contracts don’t have to be complicated to be effective.

That was the exact technique I used and occasionally use today.

Once I get settled in my new house I will try some of your techniques.

After researching different marketing techniques on this site, my local REI and various books, I chose the avenues that seemed to work the best while being cost effective.

And this is in the context of a conventional 30-year fixed conventional loan, not community bank portfolio loans with 5-year fixed rates.David, for sure, this would not be an "arms length transaction" and deep in the bowels of underwriting hell is the complication that you would need to disclose your ownership stake in the entity in question (e.g. at least via 1003 application.)

Getting an appraisers' license is a little more complicated than you think.

You don't need a computer to do something you can easily do in your head or with a calculator.Don't try to make things more complicated than they are.Mike

No I don't, you're over complicating the process.Can you not make the super easy process of building a buyers list not so complicated by nonsense words like "branding".

There are other creative techniques for commercial loans, including some that would be loan fraud for Fannie Mae (RESPA, strictly speaking) loans.