It's do-able, but sometimes paying a few extra percentage points on the hard money is worth the ease or procurement.

I'm in our procurement department, so I spend all day working with our suppliers of both goods and services, helping folks at our resort properties sort through issues, finding strange/large/expensive/hard-to-find items, and bidding out items that we need for various projects to generate savings for the company.

On actually procuring funding from investors, there are several BP podcasts to discuss that topic in more depth. 

This is a FSBO and I wanted to create an effective process for procuring off market deals also I was unable to find someone to work on a flat fee.

I should have reached out to friends and family to see if they wanted to pool together or if they wanted to buy and I could help by procure or management.

I want tenants that recognize a fair deal and a quality house and are willing to pay what it costs to procure said house.

I am also hoping to procure a few rental properties over the next few years.  

Scenario: I wish to procure a lot near a university and build a house that would be rented out to students by the room. 

See above.By procuring your property, you will see what is involved.

I read about procuring cases and they are not fun.