You may consider fine tuning your skills or finding the right people to work with (contractor, mentor, agent, lender, etc) before moving forward on a deal I stopped referring contractors years ago for a number of reasons. 

For the local DC people if you can send me any of your best contacts for local private and hard money lenders, GC and Sub contractors, and any flippers who might be producing turn key or decent investments in the area I would appreciate the extra connections!

I started by looking for an investor-friendly realtor who put me in contact with an investor-friendly lender.

After calling my lender he explained that I need at least 6 months in reserves that I need to show via savings or liquid funds such as retirement or other investment funds.

I have already been denied from 3 hard money lenders with a credit score of 710.

I had a few lenders not know what it was or how to apply for it.

I'm looking for a portfolio lender in the New Orleans area.

As I say, I've never borrowed short term before, from private or HM lenders, so kinda new to this aspect of the game.

So in this scenerio you are apart of a hard money lender group.

Looking for advice on how to obtain a secured (using property) non-income verification type loan for the purposes of renovating a non owner-occupied second home that is owned outright in order to to turn it into a short term/vacation rental (thus utilizing those projected funds for repayment).I've looked a lot of options (mostly from conventional lenders) but 99% of them want to see tax returns/proof of income.