I have taken and Airplane   a Mercedes and a Boat  few other odd items as trade for real estate .. with the airplane being the best one.. but its hard to get them to do that because most that want cash and all I had to trade was vacant building parcels.. so with cash flow that might be different but they would have to come up with cash to settle your mortgage or put a loan on it to take your mortgage out.. you don't want to sell sub too in that instance as its fraught with seller risk and it will impinged your ability to get new financing.. 

Airplanes are amazing works of art. 

We had 2 Cirrus Sr 22 's in ours and a Champ the Champ is a tail dragger and built in the 40s  its my partners I have not flown it don't like flying airplanes older than me.. :).. plus our basic storage needs and over flow of toys.. 

. #6 Real estate sales is like an airplane taking off.

Unless you're paid to jump out of airplanes for a living, people who put on parachutes do so just in case something goes wrong and they need one.

Look up the "Emotional Support Pig" that pooped all over the airplane.

By analogy, this would be like having airplane passengers wear parachutes instead of focusing on what it takes to keep the plane in the air.I think a better way to protect your equity is to:Maintain the condition of your properties and operate fairly and ethically with constant regard to the lawPurchase insurance to cover any inadvertent negligence and/or simple bad luckVest title in a business entity that fits your partner, business, and tax strategyGood luck on your purchase.

and am i really the most qualified person to be the CEO of this business, or is it better to hold someone else accountable and I can go do what I would rather be spending my time on..It is like instead of buying a ticket on an airplane to go on vacation to Hawaii, you take flying lessons and learn to fly to do it yourself...

Lots of time on the airplane to decompress and realize just how attractive 70K in the bank looks as compared to all the work they are currently doing on the way back to phoenix .

For a $200K house to need $75K worth of work, it would have had to been in a fire, have a serious foundation issue, an airplane fall on it, a broken pipe in the attic that leaked for several months without anyone noticing.. and even that would be a stretch.