We'd like to employ the BRRRR strategy but after doing some due-diligence before we buy we keep hitting the debt to income road block with banks since many won't recognize short term income until after a  tax return is filed to show true income.

Through this Marketplace, I was able to connect with @James Wise whom I recognized as someone with a lot of credibility and very active in the community.

So just recognize that it is sometimes our tendency to look somewhere else and think it would be easier/better there.Go listen to the BiggerPockets podcast episode 229.

Forget about what the Assessor says, and forget about COMPs, when it comes to land/in-fill lots.If you're going to pursue this, please recognize two things:1) It's going to consume more time and energy than you can possibly imagine, and2) You probably want to come up with a different wholesaling strategy, while working this deal.In either case, a local mentor can walk you through how to do both things (pursue this deal, and set up a viable wholesaling strategy), but it may not be the same person.  

In the case that you have described as much as I recognize that you feel that you are the cornerstone of the deal, an investor will give you very little credit for signing the mortgage and assuming that responsibility.

We target areas that we know the owners will recognize us and our brand and have a very high response rate.

There may be someone who will recognize that you are buying under market and will increase their loan amount because of that.

Durham has the most awards for restaurants in the state with many nationally recognized. 

If you consistently analyze properties, it will be much easier to recognize a good deal when it shows up.

If you consistently analyze properties, it will be much easier to recognize a good deal when it shows up.