Pick a market drill deep into that market, learn the market and success will follow.

The way we look at it however is this sort of situation would be OK - but its a one time referral fee - any sort of arrangement with a long-term referral fee / borrower protection is reserved for true professional mortgage brokers - who like @Chris Seveney mentioned, would be doing more legwork on the deal vs. a simple and clean referral handoffvia CFPB on referral fees for business-purpose hard money loans:§ 1024.5 Coverage of RESPA.THIS VERSION IS THE CURRENT REGULATIONView all versions of this regulationSearch this regulationRegulation X(a) Applicability.

In terms of timeline, don't plan for it to be a fast process, your rockstar local loan officer will not be processing the assumption, it'll be a group of call center people reading scripts from a computer screen.

My power doesn't "go out", but prevented from pulling all it's capable of and switching around the system to different homes for short periods of time to lessen the over all pull. 

I understand that short-term rentals are only allowed in the Commercial Zone and Historic Core Zone.

Successful investors are financially disciplined.

He can take a short term bridge up to 75% LTV, payoff the existing loan plus get 22k to fix the foundation up, then sell it at full value.

I would highly, highly recommend if you haven't done so a YouTube walk through, this is far better reach and you could use it for shorts to post on your other media platforms.

Most people don't get to say they had a SUCCESSFUL FIRST FLIP!  

The same amount invested in the securities market stays fully deployed for the entire term - in other words, all $12k of the principal (the basis) is at work for the entire 5 years.