Say after a week or two you have a potential buyer, but said buyer can't qualify for a traditional mortgage for whatever reason (possibly self employed).

@John Burtle While I think you can easily find smaller local banks that will do construction loans on new construction 2-4 unit houses, some of the items that you want are likely impossible.I build duplex houses for long term rentals.

@Ben Roberts,Here are the 16 items we use in the initial due diligence period. 1. 

Although being downtown means they are very old so maintance is not lower with big capex items like Windows always hanging out there.

They are all traditional 30 year mortgages.

May be the same as above, but discovering or creating unique opportunities for situations that didn't present itself on traditional or under normal circumstances!

Despite some efforts to alleviate congestion, and to improve public transit, there is no denying that driving or public transit are perfect options, and as such, many people who work in the City are choosing to live in the City, and even in the Downtown Core. 7 – Calgary is down; Toronto is up Toronto has traditionally been the economic centre of Canada, but was usurped for a number of years by Calgary.

For years, one credit card was enough, but in 2015 we did some upgrades and put the more expensive items on one of the credit cards that we got as a zero% promotion this year, so we essentially have a free loan on those upgrades for a year.

When starting out as a first time rehabber being denied a traditional loan but having a good sized down payment what would you do?

This will give you time to negotiate for those items and if they balk you can walk without losing earnest money.