It's a Pulitzer-prize winning book by a Harvard sociologist about low income renters in Milwaukee.The writer lived among his subjects to write the book (but of course he sees it through the lens of a sociologist, not a business-person). 

Cold calling, door-knocking, DM, internet marketing, online remarketing, SEO, creative marketing, flyers, everything is just a way to generate leads.

Any ideas as far as creative financing?

Haha @Brandon Foster This is such a fun, creative question!

But it's fun to be creative.

Mike Weese, I learned several methods for buying property with no money down, aka creative financing. 

We are trying to creatively find a more affordable solution that will allow us to meet our goal of starting the build later this fall.The Problem: A section of our lot had a swampy area.

As Andrew pointed out, conventional/Fannie/Freddie loans are a bit of a commodity - just about any bank or mortgage broker can originate those.Once you get to 10 financed properties, or if you need the ability for more creativity and flexibility in lending, you need a local bank that will get to know you and operates in the communities where you live and plan on investing.

I've been poking around looking for creative lenders since my industry is government construction and it involves surety bonds -- most lenders wont touch construction, and most of those who do, don't want to touch surety bonded projects--, most of them want to either go SBA, invoice factoring, or merchant cash advance.

Forget about buy and hold- lease option- and creative financing  Step 4.