If you can’t attend a particular event, call the club leader and ask for recommendations to some private lenders.

I suggest you enter private money goldmine in search botton at top right of the screen and read the previous posts....here is one that gives good perspective as well as a link to legitimate private lenders.http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/topics/1488...

If you announce to people there that you are a private lender, you'll have a lineup around the room to talk to you.  

Quote from @Karen Smith: With more investors turning to private money lenders for faster funding, what benefits have you seen from using private financing versus traditional bank loans? 

Lots of people use checkbook SDIRA for private lending.

They focus on safety issues, such as wood rot, water damage, and structural integrity of balconies and decks.

While sophistication of your equity partners (private money lenders) will vary between residential and commercial, the principle of raising private capital is the same.You need to develop your own system which allows a constant stream of PML even when you don't need the funds and/or don't have an active deal under contract.For example; I raise private capital by offering free educational workshops for people with self-directed IRAs.

And these would generally be 12% so you blend the 8% bank money and the 12% private money to get your rate.. 

The one appeal that sticks in my mind was a single story house that the appraiser noted as having a balcony (!!)

The idea is to convert a multi-family building into condos; but not in the traditional sense where you separate pre-existing apartments into their own condos; but in a way where you combine the common areas of all of the apartments in that whole building, and turn the individual rooms within those apartments into condos themselves; thus transforming the hallways, kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, porches, balconies into common areas of the condos.