Good morning/afternoon BP family! So I’ve gone to more than a dozen banks within the past couple weeks, figuring out what banks are the best for financing my RE needs. I found out that some of the local banks offer un...

.~ Inventory scarce and multiple offers taking place in many cases.

I have asked for it multiple times and nothing.

The SEC is a significant enforcement agency and you want to be on the right side of the law.Make sure you know the rules around contacting accredited and non-accredited investors, rule 506(B) and 506(C), and multiple other solicitation rules.

They are fixated on the square foot matching because it allowed them to go back a year to use comps.This happened with multiple properties across multiple appraisers.I'd say things like; "All things being equal a larger house is going to sell for more than a smaller house" and would get told "Smaller houses in your neighborhood must be in more demand; that's why the price is higher".I'd say things like; "Here is a house that is the same square footage in the same subdivision going to the same schools and it sold for much less" and would get told "But it's in the older part of the subdivision" when the year built was only 2 years older than mine!

Multiple stuck valves throughout the house and at the main shutoff within the house.

At some point, any investor will neet to have skin in the game. 

Absentee Owners have been popular for a long time, and are apparently still somewhat effective (people are still mailing to them) but they are getting multiple offers to buy their home.

You need a track record and should be doing multiple flips at once.

will the real estate builder be paid one lump sum payment from some investor or multiple payments through a amortization schedule of payment from the borrower?