So you pre-paid the $30k for the work and now he's essentially ghosting you?

In 2020, I was a fitness instructor with zero real estate experience and $10k saved up.In 2023, I bought 3 investment properties and 7 acres of land.I wouldn’t have been able to do this if I didn’t start with rental arbitrage 3 ½ yrs ago.It’s a powerful strategy.. if used correctly.Here is how I used $10k to build a $500/k yr.

Are there any strategies, niches, or market shifts that have caught your attention recently?

The date came and went and she essentially ghosted.

So this is why this strategy is coming up so much one because of why you want to do it taking over low interest loans and when markets start to have issues and owners have financial issues.the KEY is finding sub too ANY EQUITY a lot of folks doing sub too will over pay just to land the mortgage to me thats not a good bizz model every deal we did could be flipped day one for a nice profit. other wise we passed. 

From what I"ve gathered on a few posts, I believe the hard money loan downpayment, closing costs, and holding costs likely require cash whereas the hard money loan, renovation costs, and selling costs are essentially covered via loan/after selling.

Any one of the above who were for or against LLC and had to change their strategy 'after' a lawsuit. 

For us, we place our goals in quarterly buckets following EOS strategy but measure them with weekly and monthly KPI's.

Moreover, what investment strategy are you looking to implement?  

The steps that I've personally taken is educating myself as much as possible on the house hacking strategy in these forums.