The houses could be great, so great you don't have to do due diligence, but I'd have to do some major research into figuring out how that's possible and I'd still be irritated about paying a fee when no one else charges one (although maybe it means you get better service, I don't know).

As to LTV...not sure why an investor would care, other than they want to see you have experience and skin in the game.

I've done it twice now and the last one was by the skin of my teeth that it went through because of the marginal neighborhood.

So, I looked a four "creative" listings lately and am becoming more and more irritated at the audacity of some of these listing agents...I mean really, there are guidelines to listing a property.

If you have any money to bring to the table, that would definitely help out in finding a partner as you'd also have som "skin" in the game.Or you can also partner with more experienced flippers, by bringing your time and energy to the table, doing work that your experienced partner does not have time to do.Good luck!

The owner saves money because there is no realtor, you save money because there is no realtor, there is no negotiating through two realtors that don't have any skin in the game.

Therefore I charge them enough that they have "skin" in the game.

40K will be real hard to get a hard money person to move on you may have better luck with putting a deal together and getting a partner but try to have some skin in the game if possible will help your chances alot more.

You can also use a step system where at certain points more of the EM in increments becomes non-refundable thereby increasing the skin for the buyer each day the closing gets closer.

Considering this is a new venture the HML may want you to have more skin in the game.It might be good to work on per-approvals from multiple HMLs.