I should add, that in each of those 3 instances I made my grievances quite clear to the lender, also noting that there are lots of lenders and it's incredibly easy to find another one, especially these days.  

I discovered BP in the process of doing research for my RE license course and I have got to say the community here is incredible.

Keep in mind a lot of these techniques sound great in practice but can be difficult to pull off. 

Socal has incredibly high rents.

What techniques, systems, and suggestions to do have to make driving for dollars easier?

It honestly felt incredibly comfortable, maybe a little overly comfortable, which I didn’t mind and didn’t care that the extra cash wasn’t sitting in my bank account.

He achieved these impressive savings from a technique known as cost segregation.

You need to have faith not only in yourself but also in the fact that this strategy alone has made many many Real Estate investors incredibly rich.

I always wanted to bring some of the old beauty back to the city of Detroit, the architecture from the 1920's is incredible How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

Throw in the public REITs, and you have an incredibly competitive environment in the primary, secondary and now even tertiary markets in terms of how much raw capital is out there chasing deals.