Their objective, quite honestly, is to preserve as much of their savings as possible to pass down to myself or their grandkid(s).

This would be much safer if it does not go as you expect and it would preserve your down payment cash for business operations & growth. 

There may be opportunity in rural areas, as well, to increase supply of moderately-priced housing due to high demand.Rent growth is higher than income growth, which may present a financial limit to workforce housing cash-flow.Overall, there's plenty of opportunity for both preserving existing and building new workforce housing. 

I have seriously considered starting my own property preservation business but have been discouraged by many saying it's a dying industry.

Preservation of Capital is probably the next thing. 

This whole get levered, and preserved cash against it bogus.

I think where many make a mistake is trying to fit one situation into a way everyone should invest.In the multi-family arena most small investors will not pursue class A properties.The reason is they will lose out to Reit's,pensions,hedge funds every day of the week.These companies will seek SAFETY for MARGINAL returns to place their money.They are into wealth preservation with small growth instead of wealth creation.This is why I get calls from investor groups looking for B,C buildings with an A,B,C location.They don't go after A's because the returns don't justify their investor pools guidelines for acquisition.I have investors from California,New York etc. contact me every week looking for property here in Ga.

How would you plan the payments to be (i.e, full bacxk payment onve receiving RF or monthly payments according to the numbers, in order to preserve cash flow? 

Long term, preserving the quality of life for locals and the community really has to be the #1 priority or else there really won't be anyone left to host and serve the millions of visitors every year.One other thing I can't help think is that this is all happening right before the gondola lots are developed.

I am looking to grow my Property Preservation business.