Funding strategies for real estate investors — hard money, private money, conventional, creative financing.
Ninety percent of listings I look at get rejected in about ten minutes. Here’s the fast filter I run every deal through — rent-to-price, the tax trap, the reserves beginners forget, and the pretty pro forma lies.
A GC’s markup can run 15–25% of your rehab — real money you could keep. But self-GCing saves you on some deals and quietly costs you on others. After 20+ years, here’s how I decide.
Finding a deal isn’t what stops most new investors — funding it is. Here’s a no-fluff look at cash, conventional, hard money, private money, house hacking, and HELOCs, and how real investors stack them together.
