If you search "Salem Five Direct", you will be able to get the 1.85% rate (my login is just on Salem Five).Anything I don't plan on using the near future, I just throw into Index Funds.

You can search/join a local rei group and usually there are wholesalers that attend. 

You picked out a few really good neighborhoods to search because its still cheaper than LA proper but they are growing/changing in a positive manner. 

Since I don't know where an auction will end, the only thing I can think of is to search listing for the word auction and remove them entirely from the list.

Finally, I spent two years almost exclusively working with investors, providing nearly every type of financing.My guess would be this: there is a very definable trade-off between local knowledge and access to properties that "check all of the boxes". 

You should go on Facebook and search for South Jersey Rehab Group and request to join.

Search "property managers in Memphis" on here and call the ones recommended most.

With all the great commercial loan programs out there, if it were me, I'd search different banks for a Stated Income ALT program up to 90% cLTV with rates in the 4 to 5 range Questions:Are you paying cash?

Brick home.I did a quick title search and came back with 4 liens from the same lender for 25-38k.

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