I am always interested in talking about creative financing and sharing lessons learned. 

Be creative,This is what's done in RE offices, new listings are put up and a few marked sold are mixed in to do a couple things; 1. shows activity, moving the inventory 2. plants the seed of urgency in the minds of those looking, they will be marked sold any day!

Hi,Since reading through this forum for the last few days, I have decided that I would like to invest in properties in good, safe working class areas, in the 50k-70k range.Being from the UK I think that starting with Turnkey properties would be best as it provides a more hands off solution, rather than buying somewhere that needs rehab as this would be very difficult to manage from the UK.When it comes to finance it seems that options are limited, ideally I would want to put as little down as possible so I guess I may need to be creative!

(I am not talking about breaking bones, lol) I would prefer not to post them, but think creatively.

It seems I will have to get even more creative as I am currently shopping for/vetting hard money lenders in this area as well.

I am just looking for some advice if it is a good deal and maybe some ideas on creative financing. thanks

Join the Chicago Creative Investors Association (CIA) run by Jane Garvey.

If they don't, you do even better in the end.Happy InvestingDerek DombeckSo much creativity and risk mitigation in this. 

Also, PMI payments are not tax deductible, unlike the interest payments on your rental property.I recommend finding a creative way to increase the value of your current residence and shell out the ~500$ for an appraisal in order to get rid of your PMI. 

Nicholas,If you have retirement funds in an IRA or old 401k you could rollover those into Self-directed IRA and be very creative when it comes to investing.