Insurance Loss proceeds can be some of the hardest to get reimbursed from your lender.

I can't drive a car off the lot (or drive a car PERIOD) if I don't have protection for insurance and while my car is one of my babies, my INVESTMENT is my baby that I'm building from the ground up. 

He's given me pretty good advice on the different neighborhoods.One one of the things you should be careful to screen is the rehabber's rehab standards.

Brokers typically have errors and emissions (E & 0 insurance) specifically for misrepresentation of facts or forgetting a disclosure.

Too many other debt sources without the red tape to deal with and expensive legal costs to close the loans.Credit union, bank, Life Insurance, Pensions fund, Private investor loans etc.

In one breathe you do not want to be a sponsor or managing member but in another you are not wanting to be a passive investor in a larger syndicate.It sounds like you do not want to to work for the yield a sponsor gets but want more return than a passive investor gets as standard investing in a syndicate.Sounds like you are looking more for a joint venture arrangement.Brian Burke is out that way and a member on here and he does large multifamily syndicates.

Well now I have a little bit of savings after working hard and saving like crazy for a LONG time and I've decided to buy a home cash in Memphis so that I have less risk (vacancies, HOA fees, mortgage payments, etc. all scare me, being a newbie, so I see this as the lowest risk way to get started because even if the home sits vacant for a year I would only have to pay taxes and insurance). 

Hi David, well since you did not escrow taxes or insurance and if you're coupon rate is over 5% you're probably not in compliance with with cfpb.

Both of these objectives help insure good cash flow and cash on cash returns.Hope this is what you are looking for.

You then counter with numbers that will work for you.Going in you know exactly what your minimum requirements are and target that or better in terms.There is no standards there is only what you need or better to make it work.Your ideal target would be the best bank rate but with seller financing that would be extremely rare.