I recently graduated college with a B.S in biochemistry and started a production job at 40k/year with about 20k in savings and no debt at all.

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One thing I can suggest right now is that your use of the word "flip" and 1031 in the same sentence won't work.  1031 exchanges are only available to investors who purchase property to hold for productive use in business trade or for investment.  

These folks have an intriguing product.  

I tried to do a small deal with a partner using a commercial loan (as req'd given that we'd have an LLC, etc) but we decided on these smaller deals that it wasn't worth it to partner up and use a commercial loan product...have you found this same situation in your deals?

I do think you'd find value in listening to the ideas in this podcast: http://mixergy.com/interviews/john-ruhlin-ruhlin-g...It's with John Ruhlin, founder of the Ruhlin Group which is the #1 all-time distributor of Cutco (this has nothing to do with the knife company other than him being the number one man to move product).  

Looking forward to seeing the finished product.

The MLS (and all other platforms) are full of overpriced duds and no one in the area seems to have any good product. 

Or are they using non-traditional financing to buy their properties and then refinancing with other types of products since closing with hard and private money typically require less days for closing?

Jeremy, i simply don't want the liability of potentially being personally accused of 'id theft' and the likes of 'negligent enablement' thereof in today's highly litigious America where it seems like 50% americans are prescribed some sort of psychiatrics drugs and the other half on recreational ones; and the average civilian being practically a professional 'crisis actor'. frankly, and im not even kidding, 10-20 years ago it used to be that young adults wanted to be rock stars. now its practically like every one wants to be 'lawyer'?