I would love to hear about how investors have found creative ways to make expensive markets work!

Seems like the only way would be to utilize an investment loan, yet, perhaps someone has a creative strategy that would accommodate something closer to the 5% conventional loan. 

You also have to very diligent and creative on recording. 

Hope it turns out to be in your favor, however I much appreciate that way way forward thinking and an enterprisingly different dimension of creative finance !!

I've been deep diving into creative ways to create other streams of income and recently learned about BiggerPockets, from one of the real estate investing books I've been reading.

Hi, I'm a real estate investor wanting to learn more about creative financing.

Starting with a SFR in CA and being a bit creative with the property? 

Not sure what type of closings you do in NC, but in Maryland we use title companies who have their own attorney.You will want to find investor-friendly title companies who are used to dealing with more creative types of deals.

Or start investing it right away - Alot you can do with 10k these days with creative financing. 

If there truly aren't many deals, and the funds needed for a down payment aren't feasible at this time, or your income isn't high enough to qualify for financing on a property, then you're going to have to get creative!