Don't sweat over it.

I wouldn't sweat it.

You/Me need to become the absolute experts on this--its your blood sweat & tears. 

I purchase properties in need of work and put sweat equity into them by doing a majority of repairs myself and then follow BRRR strategy.

. - there are numerous ways to achieve sweat equity from boring but true rehabs, to development, to various localized sophisticated options

The reason people seek for distress properties, so that they can acquire the property at a low price and renovate the house aka "value add" so that they can increase the property's value and create sweat equity, then pulling the money out or cash out we call out so that investors can liquidate their money and reinvest on the next project @Albert Bui @Carlos Valencia

Moved into a cheap house and used “sweat equity” to increase value and then obtained a line of credit.5.

My brother has indicated on multiple occasions an interest in us buying rental properties together - he would be financial equity, I would be sweat equity.

If you can get fixer-upper in an otherwise safe (looking) Class A/B neighborhood, you could put in some sweat equity then rent that out.

Put in a little bit of sweat equity as well.