In addition to traditional options, he suggested taking out a HELOC on our current home as a way to make a cash offer with quick close and then finance with a more traditional mortgage product after the property is secured.

I shopped around a few traditional banks and they were all high so I just settled on the lesser of all the crappy options.

Pass on this guy and get a traditional tenant for your first go.

Association has no rental restrictions so I plan to keep as a traditional rental until I see how the city of Miami Beach regulates STRs. 

Unless they have a substantial revenue stream separate from the traditional flip, they aren’t making any money if this example is representative.

It is going to cost you more than traditional construction methods and you run into insurance, zoning issues, etc.

Traditional 30 yr fixed at 3.6%.

Found this deal through traditional MLS. got it for 10K under asking while I was the 4th highest offer.

It is easy to move IRA or 401(k) funds over to a self-directed IRA to invest in something a little less “traditional.”

You'd need to find out if the co-op would allow a non-traditional bank to finance the purchase.