Who is the best national hard money lender that focuses on fix/flip only?

Focused on selling experiences in the Great Smoky Mountains National park and area.

.- purchaser is a bi-national MX/US, California resident- development will have multiple partners (some family members others equity investors.

In my experience, the men and women who make significant money in real estate are all exactly the same in a few basic ways: grounded, stable, well-organized, determined, thoughtful, persevering, well-rounded types that manage risk well.

I have a brick rancher close to the nations that I plan to convert into a duplex and would like to list both apartments as STRs.

CA saw that Oregon has seen that .. then a run up later.the big dips on the west were CA  89 to 92   little dip Y2K 911  and the mother of them all the GFC.. which was nation wide.. 

Do you think it makes any difference using a local vs a national lender?

Single family house which is much higher than the national average.

Nationally it's something like a 3.4% increase.  

IMN has one in September in Atlanta and the NARPM national conference is in October in Arizona.