"This will only further hamper tight supply and put major investors in direct competition with traditional buyers."

The second was a traditional finance at $203,296 with an inspection and finance contingency, and the third was an attempt at creativity inspired by Greg S. 

This is a very expensive way to finance flipping and we are going to more traditional loans as we get more experienced.  

There's a sweet spot ("not busted and torn apart, but also not not updated and current... juuuust right") where the property is traditionally financeable, but severely neglected. 

I always thought that when you transfer title, you trigger the due-in-sale clause in a traditional mortgage.I see questions time and again from investors who want to transfer ownership of their residential property purchased with a traditional mortgage into their LLC but are worried about triggering the due on sale clause - or worse, don't even know the clause exists.Some of our (non-lender) members say this never happens.

Save the 10% of a traditional PM and make this turn a little profit for you.

Some of these loans are attainable the same way a traditional mortgage is obtained and can require a little less in downpayment.  

This would have been a commercial loan - I used the term "conventional" when I should have said "traditional", meaning that I was assuming the standard loan terms for this type of property.

IRA's?

They will use their own contract that is heavily, heavily skewed toward the lender and will usually pass many traditional seller fees off onto the buyer.