If you can pitch to a private lender and explain they provide 90% of capital and get 10% (or whatever) of profit and future equity... more power to you.

I've done some earthmoving work at Lake Keowee for Duke Power, man talk about a beautiful place.

I don't think this quote is as high as you think...you are doing a lot more than just interior painting at $2 /sfWalls, ceiling & interior trim paint - $3000Exterior Painting (power washing vinyl, trim & door paint) - $1,000Deck staining - $1,000Kitchen Cabinets - $1,500Skimcoating at Wallcovering/Drywall prep/patching - $500 to $1,000 or so...So by my calculations, that's about $7,000 

you can get a home assessment from Georgia power below and qualify for rebates from the utility for things to include insulation and home sealing along with the asessment fee:http://residential.georgiapower.com/products-progr...There is also a free home energy audit available that might be worth considering if you don't want to shell out for an more detailed  assessment:http://residential.georgiapower.com/products-progr...Start with that and see what they recommend.

We have been looking at properties virtually and are able to make trips out if/as needed which we have done to look at properties and build our power teams.

You can get the entire entree out here for that.Longer term, if California doesn't bankrupt itself trying to give citizens of other countries free health care or provide cell phones to the homeless, and actually makes the vision of the California High Speed Rail a reality, or self-driving cars become mainstream and allow commuters to work on the road to work, then Sacramento will absolutely fricking explode with Bay Area commuters.But then again, we may have FAR bigger problems on the horizon, with automation, robots and AI set to replace as much as 73 million jobs by 2030.

We have thought of selling our $2,500,000 of rental houses (owned outright) and participating in syndications, but we would be very little fish, so have very little power. 

@Bill Gulley  (okay, the @ thingy definitely does not work on mobile either)...Bill is right, flying blind will completely change the way I interact, and up till now I considered myself a Power user.

The power of the internet!

The applicant brought in his own credit report powered by appfolio, and I did notice that Smartmove showed more problems than the applicant's report.