Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, and enroll your kids in a nice private school.

You can also pay for a private detective. 

Private money loan How did you add value to the deal?

I doubt quite a few real estate investors ever had any shame to begin with, just some vague middle-class-minded, status-seeking notions about not being embarrassed publicly for what they did as privately as possible.

We were then able to find a private investor to put up 90K and we put up the rest of the money to perform the rehab.

@Jason BrownYou can source for private Money Investors to fund your deals, but they usually would require you to have a skin in the deal.

Purchase price: $808,000 Sale price: $860,000 1890s two-story row house. 3BR/1.5BA, 1300+ SF, with private parking.

I am new in this field and after doing research I believe I found a potential deal and now I am ready to start doing my presentation for the private lender, which is, in this case, my mother.

There are public Reits that were previously private syndications that are priced well below their private price. 

But I didn't get the impression from what you're writing that you are in the same kind of situation as me.Nevertheless I'm happy to help if I can so feel free to send me a private message and we'll arrange something.