Things I build are very use-case specific.

Customarily, hard money lenders need a first lien on the property they are financing and would not accept a prior mortgage.What was your specific lender / approach to obtaining the private hard money?

FHA loan with cash out for repairs...specifically mold remediation.

They might have lower fees due to inferior tools or abilities. ( Talking in generalities and not this specific situation.)I do not look for cheap I look for VALUE.

Regarding networking, I've heard about meetups on here, but I dont think there has been a BP-specific meetup for a while.

I have looked around, and don't know of an REIA or meet-up group specifically for folks like us. 

Feel free to shoot me a message with any other specific questions. 

I hope this makes sense, and please feel free to PM me if you would like a more specific answer or if you just have further questions.

The issue is that this single property has a need for a specific skill set, my father in this particular scenario, and this same job will be outsourced in the future.

When I called him (he did have an area code which fit where he claimed to be from), he had a pretty thick African accent (now, I know there are a lot of different countries in Africa, but due to my ignorance, I can't intelligently suggest where specifically he may from).