Stop working so hard to make a mistake!

That low down-payment and rate is too enticing for us to simply start looking for private/hard money if there's another option out there. 

I'd like to know what that is (or maybe I just have to contact them for that), because my neighborhood is so new and booming that every agent and investor I've talked to in the local area is hard-pressed to make solid evaluations beyond what sale prices are tending to pop up.

Hard working, successful rofessional tenants are easy to manage.

Try to look over a  few properties and run your numbers using different scenarios such as hard money lenders, or doing it by yourself.   

Recently, it has been hard to find enticing prospects and I'm beginning to think that I should lower my required return expectations given where we currently sit in the market cycle if I want to continue investing on LI.I'm still relatively new to RE investing.

They may try to pull and fast one and charge you for the meter replacement but push back on them hard if they do. 

Would it be possible to basically become my own hard money lender by using funds from the LLC to purchase properties (using BRRRR strategy).Basically we would take a loan from the company just like we would from an HLM.

.….Use hard money for down payment and rehab?

@Jeff Kim I dont really like downtown for rentals because the price points are a little higher, and the rents are actually a little weaker, and they can be a little hard to rent.