I dont know if he married into a crazy family or what - what I was told of him at the apt community he lived at when he was single was that he was an angel and a clean freak and played by the rules.I dont know if he felt I was a sucker as I was a private landlord and moving out of town or what. 

We are now 10 months in and ready to sell we purchased for 188k put in 110k and it can be sold for 429k. 

And I didn’t start out with much money - I looked for every creative way I can to find properties for little to no money down, using hard money loans, contract for deeds, private funding, and leveraging my retirement accounts.

Did you use a mix of private and hard money?

I am not saying it's impossible but would be hard.Another way would be find private money from friends and family for down payment.

@Mathew Wray Combining two separate lots for development purposes does create plottage value, however, it may not be enough to overcome the fact that the tear down is going on the market and will likely be sold for a high dollar amount, and you have a nice house worth half a million dollars that would need to be torn down. 

I'm hoping that some of you can point me in the right direction or offer up some advice on private money lending forms. 

Thanks all for any input,Trey I come from the IT world and computer sales myself (when they sold for $100,000 and more a long time ago) ;-) You should consider partnering with someone.

That was one of the reason I sold both my SFRs in Milwaukee this year.

I believe the topic of finding private people for investing or partnering has been discussed many times, so I'd do some more searches on BP.