My business partner and I put together an LLC and bought our first house NOV 17 and the second in April of 18examples:1st house bought for 40k put in 25k and sold for 85 less closing and commission and holding costs = 13k net2nd house bought for 44k put in 20k and sold for 86k less closing and commission and holding = 14k net ( under contract pending close)Although these are not home runs, they are my first two houses and the education is priceless and the opportunity to put some systems in place has also been valuable. 

There are also private lenders that may be able to give him a mortgage.

Hello to this great community, I'm glad I finally found a community around real estate.Well to introduce you, my name is Stelios 32 yo from Heraklion, Greece(Crete Island), married with 1 kid.As for Real Estate, right now I'm working on buying 2 studio apartments in my area(Heraklion).According to my newbie research in the area, the market in my town must be right now in phase 1 but I'm not 100% sure, to be honest.Bureaucracy alone is one hell of work in my country and I already work 3 months on fixing papers, waiting for tax systems to unlock so we can get some tax papers needed and much more things...Well to consider numbers, the 2 apartments are in the center of my town and they are both sold at the deep discount of 23600€ right now if you ask me this is a very rare price.

We are expanding into the Nevada and would love a QE that is not using their license or semi retired.

Can you find private money or a co-signer / partner? 

We would find a lot owner to deed the lot to us (which we could use as the down payment on the construction loan), build a spec house, and once sold we split the profits (the lot owner got less than a 50% split).

My wife and I just sold our condo in NW Chicago and bought a duplex in Valparaiso (60 minutes to the Loop) close to the price-point you're looking at.

Her mother has dementia and her house was recently sold at an auction due to 2 years back payment for taxes.

This property first record of purchase on Zillow is 9/1999 selling at $89,500, indicating a 21.82% appreciation rate at the current sale price, including factoring in a 51% drop in value when sold in 2010.

Private schools are cheap and are very good, for the most part.