I've been thinking about buying options on REIT's to reduce my exposure, and also give a nice little cash infusion, should the market go down, but REIT's don't directly track the real estate market.

*Hard Money is a quick infusion of cash.

The most common is on the financial side: how are returns split based on work and equity brought into deal, what happens if the asset needs more capital infused, what happens if more capital is needed and one of you doesn't have it?  

I think for this particular project, I’ll list to sell solely for the cash infusion and then work on building up the long-term portfolio.

The extra cash infusion would def help lower my own capital expenses for purchase and renovating.

- Initial capital infusion was too low and ideally I would have budgeted for more startup expenses; this is mainly due to the four renovations and HVAC issues.- Would have inspected all HVAC units and used failing HVAC systems as negotiation point (two HVAC units failed within one month after purchase).

That’s no forced equity, no inflation, no scarcity of inventory, no infusion of savings, bonds or stock money searching for any returns above 1/2 of 1%. 

I think that some logic applies to more groups and this infusion of cash to the market has had an impact on ppl looking at RE as a stable stream of cash flows, which it can be, but doesn't have to be; as you have illustrated.  

If you are looking for help in the Saginaw area I can get you hooked up with Infuse, they are putting on an incremental development workshop in Saginaw in 2 weeks. 

If there is a problem with the property and it needs a cash infusion to re-stabilize the IRS has strict rules on what you can and cannot do with DST's.