Here you need to convince people you are smarter, wiser, better looking, sexier, smell better, have the biggest.. brain of all the competitors out there. 

@Robin Boyer you go Rob finaly someone with some sense, their own brain, but dont forget Robin check with your county or any county about buying outstanding property taxes, always look beyond the common way of real estate investing thats how you win. 

I may reach out to you to pick your brain sometime!

I have never owned anything like this property and all the variables are defeating my brain.

There are companies that will pool your funds and underwrite the deals for a fee, so it's a little more passive, and not as high risk.If you want to be more directly involved, just join any given real estate investing related webinar, state that you are a private lender looking to deploy capital, and you will be inundated with folks soliciting you to borrow money like it's the brain eating zombie apocalypse and you have a brain the size of Einstein's.

The next guy might be someone who loses his life's savings to the same contractor and blows his brains out.

It serves as the same function as a BRRRR refinance without the transactional costs and brain damage of having to go through a refinance process.

Looking at buying a place but it would need to assess at $210K after repairs for the math to work and for me to be able to refi and pay back a private lender.Thinking I may be able to pick their brain to find out how its done.

I would still like to grow my AUM, but perhaps differently, as you had mentioned. i would like to pick your brain a bit more for some insight on how/when you chose to pivot.

IMO just show you are smart with investors who actually want to see you have a brain and have the ability to help you reach your goals.