I am a real estate lender, I provide the funds to finance deals all over the country.

Currently, I am looking for a single family house to rehab in my area and financing.If anyone can suggest a good money lender, I would appreciate it.  

Not sure if this is a stupid question or not but here it goes....So I want to purchase a property and initially I want to do most of the work myself and to finance the first deal I will most likely use a hard money lender.

I would avoid HML but private lenders might be viable if you know people that will give you good terms.

I am going to assume you don't declare that income to the IRS on your tax return and pay the proper amount of taxes on it.If it is not on your last two years of tax returns,you will get no credit for it from the traditional banks and lenders which means you ability to borrow money will be based solely on what little you do declare and have taxed properly.Your savings and checking account s and stock holdings are irrelevant,only your verifiable monthly and yearly income.Your only choice would be a hard money lender at an enormous interest rate.

Any lenders you would recommend?

Christopher Cahill just my 2 cents, if you own it free and clear and houses are around it for 300k and you are wanting to get into flips, I would say find a private lender and fix up and sell.

You need to talk to a mortgage lender in your area.

Joe's brother-in-law buying Joe's house at a short sale would be a huge red flag for fraud.I think the biggest arrow in your quiver is #1, and your most probable path to success is to order a fresh appraisal with a fresh opinion of value, and once it comes back go to your (or the end-lender's) appraisal department (not the AMC, the lender's internal folks) and argue that the new appraisal is more credible than the previous one because of #1 ("if the appraiser didn't even go to the comps for a quick drive-by photo, who knows what else he didn't even actually do?")

Thing is I need a hard money lender to help.