You can use hard money if your credit score is in good shape and you have some reserves.

Generally people text us notice and we ask them to follow that up with email or regular mail confirming.  

Definitely helps with building cash reserves.

Cash reserves (can't sell notes that are at high risk of defaulting)5.

You can then sum up your overall cash flow shortfall over the period until release, to calculate how much capital you need to reserve to keep you afloat.

BTW, Theres paint shortages so confirm that they have a good source even SW has been tight on some of their products.

You need that money for reserves.

This requires 30% down, all repair funds in cash, and reserves plus collateral on the money itself. 

I'd come up with all your own assumptions to generate a purchase price. get it under contract, then confirm (via Ptax statements as noted below), your assumptions, if something is off, thats reason to kill the deal.This shouldn't cause so much headache for you, just fire off the NOI and see what happens.

In our experience, the #1 mistake landlords make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.