I was able to secure a hard money lender, but having difficulty in finding a private lender.

Also I would need to secure funding, but have a small nest egg to work with and like I said we have W2 income with great credit, low debt/income ratio.

I personally would have a chat with the tenant about up-keeping the house and only ask for a monthly pet rent plus an additional security deposit (not a pet deposit) because of the indoor dog.

@Rob Smith - all great points above.One thing that I didn't see mentioned is becoming a private lender for real estate investors.IMHO - this is the fastest way to grow you limited seed funds.You can easily charge 1-5 points PLUS 12-15% APR for short term loans that are secured by real estate.I personally use a handful of private lenders to fund my wholesale business [I don't do assignments, I close on each property before reselling].I never pay more than 65% LTV and give the lender a Promissory Note along with a Mortgage.  

Legislative Updates & How They Affect Title to Real PropertyThis month 6 Feb our title company sponsor Martin Garcia, Vice President of Texas Secure Title will be speaking with us about the latest legislative updates and their impact to real property.

If you have limited or bad credit, work on strengthening your credit by getting a secured credit card.

We won't be able to secure our funding by March 4th. 

Publicly listed securities are so much better is so many ways.

reason being, ive only owned my construction business for 1 yr, banks require 2 years of returns and Im using my brother as a co-borrower just for securing financing.  

Does anyone have a good approach to asking the seller to subordinate their note so that I may secure funding for rehab costs?