Worth the 4-star), the A/C cut off randomly, the black tile grout looks like it was applied with a spray gun, the drawer under the kitchen sink would knock the peatrap clean off if you closed it too fast and needless to say...reviews suffered.I've gotten smarter since then, but have often wondered if I could do a reset on that listing.

Sorry it isn't more black and white.

Everything else is BLACK AND WHITE.

What if they want one bedroom orange, one purple and one black?

Eric Black

Jason, others may have had a different experience but in my personal experience hard money lending is - like much of business - built on personal relationships.I would recommend you start going to a local REIA such as the RI Real Estate Investors Group (rireig.com) or Black Diamond REI (BlackDiamondREI.com) and network, maybe identify a few promising folks, take them out to coffee or a meal, etc. and just look to start building a few relationships and identifying good prospects.Then when you have a deal you're looking for a lender on, you'll have a few people to start asking and maybe if they don't know someone they can recommend you to someone else in the group (one of their contacts).People are much more comfortable recommending people they already know and have "vetted" as having a minimum amount of knowledge, so that's what you'll really be trying to do - establish that you've educated yourself, didn't just get out of your first seminar last weekend, are committed to real estate beyond this year, etc.All that said, if you think you really have a good deal and have a compelling case to make to a lender*, by all means announce it at one or more local REIA meetings and you may end up making a connection right away.But if you don't already have a good deal & value proposition for a lender then I'd say go the long-game, relationship-building route.

I hear so much about folks owning portfolios of rentals and rehabbing multiple houses a year, but what does it really look like in black and white financial terms...?

However, if the property is not under an exclusive right to sell contract then what would actually happen if the seller sold the property behind the agent's back other than the buyer/seller getting black listed by most agents?

The low priced awesome deals are like shopping on Black Friday.

So far everything is in pencil and is pretty black and white. 1st, learn to dive 18 wheeler truck and become long haul trucker2nd live in truck most of the time to save up for investing in multi unit property (using FHA loan) cash flowing $200 per door 3rd drive truck most of the time and plow cash flow into property to pay down mortgage, do mortgage loan to buy more property 4th drive truck until I have a cash flow of $10,000 per month5th live in Florida as close to Walt Disney World as I can and start a vacation rental businessAnd then everything gets fuzzy.