Empower Her Shield: You Matter: A 90-Day Devotional & Workbook for Women

The bank said NO. Private money says YES.Every real estate investor hits the same wall. The deal is good, the numbers work, and the bank still won't fund it. Conventional lenders don't understand investment property, and they don't move at the speed a deal demands. Private money is where investors actually get funded. This is the operator's field guide to working with it.Anthony A. O'Brien built RealEstateLender.com into one of the country's top commercial private lenders and structured thousands of deals. He didn't borrow private money and write about it afterward. He ran the lending operation, sat on the approval side of the table, and saw exactly why deals get funded and why they get killed. This book puts you on that side of the table before you make your next offer.What you'll learn:Prepare a lender-ready loan package that gets approvedChoose the right product: acquisition/rehab, bridge, transactional, or DSCR term loanMaster draw schedules, seasoning, and the true cost of capitalStructure your LLC the way private lenders requireFind, vet, and negotiate with lenders, and spot the predatorsUnderwrite a deal the way a lender does, before you make an offerPlan your exit, scale into a portfolio, and handle deals when they go wrongThis fully revised second edition adds major new chapters and dozens of real-world numbers, scripts, and document checklists. You also get real-deal case studies, a complete glossary, the key numbers every investor must know, and financing scenarios mapped to your borrower profile.Who this is for: First-time flippers who need to get funded without getting buried in fees, and active investors scaling from one deal at a time to a portfolio. If you've been turned down by a bank for a deal you knew was good, this is the book that explains why and shows you where the money actually is.Whether it's your first flip or your fiftieth deal, this guide gets you to the closing table.About the Author: Anthony A. O'Brien is Managing Partner of Fyntra and founder of RealEstateLender.com, which grew under his leadership into a top 10 commercial lender. Over a 30-year career spanning capital markets, energy, and real estate, he has processed thousands of private money loans and advised investors across 40 states. He began at Prudential-Bache Securities, rose to Senior Vice President of Institutional Sales, and later founded Spinnaker Partners, a proprietary hedge fund.