We no longer can cash out refinance to keep them as part of the BRRR method.

a simple e transfer gets them paid and being that it is a second job for them, their fee should be fairly cheap.If you have about 20k in cash on your own, i would look to secure another investor or solicit friends and family. 

If you want to find desperate sellers learn from wendy patton or Vena Jones Cox.Their courses are also sold on ebay cheap.Basically, its use a bunch of marketing methods to get a huge amount of leads so you dont have to try to make every deal work.Direct marketing is a biggie.http://www.reiclub.com/freebies.php

Flyers in selected neighborhoods, direct mail, other methods?

You will likely have to pay substantially higher interest rates, you might have to go the "personal loan"-route(either "secured" or "unsecured"), and bite the bullet on the APR, and even the tax-deductability of the interest on the loan(?...

In addition to another negative condition is that she requested to have her security deposit pay off during the first 6 months of the 1 year lease contract rather than before she moves in.

Interestingly, after the dust settled this past weekend, turns out this new mc is close buds with the old one, uses the same accounting method and resists changing.

I have seen a number of people on this board that have advocated this method...

We did get the idea from the Total Money Makeover, we just weren't sure if it applied to income properties as well as for our personal residence.In these uncertain economic times, I "feel" more secure by owing less.

After Nasdaq crashed and my partner lost $3 million (he was the money guy and was not on my system), I decided that I should learn the securities and bond side of the business.