As I am brand new and going from being a Traditional landlord to wanna be Wholesaler and later Rehab/flipper.

Many hard/private lenders can fund a deal in a matter of days where a traditional lender can take weeks to give a final approval on a loan.

I might even match the ceremony it with the demographics of the area, whether they are traditional Catholic house blessing or feng shui types.... be worth the time  and expense IMHO....

@Tim Cooper I think you should go for a low down payment mortgage rather than a traditional conventional loan that requires 20% down. 

I don't see a traditional lender doing this.

My signature line of "it slowly dawned on me that we won the appreciation lottery" was taken from a Honolulu "investor" that ran all the "numbers" he wanted to but not the ones that really count if you are really in investing for profit. 

Also @Dave Foster, @Upen Patel Do either of you know if in a 1030 exchange from a single-family property to multiple properties has the requirements of purchasing investment property through traditional means, such as a six-month emergency fund for each property?

Hi,We are looking at an REO property that will not finance traditionally.

Admin: Your office, contract, legal, generally paperwork business.Operations: Your management, repairs, contracting, the physical business of real estate.A&D: Lead generation, offers, networking, essentially your sales arm (to view it from a traditional business perspective).What's interesting is that the book emphasizes hiring a full-time A&D role, last.

In Hawaii market, traditional real estate deals dominate the industry.I went to one of the local REIA meetings and discovered that Hawaii is not for lower budget real estate investing.