It's possible to deleverage in an exchange, but only if you accept some tax hit (partial exchange) or bring outside cash to the table, which can hurt your ROE. 

This is a space where this is a pool table, arcade games, gaming chairs, etc.  

We expect you to be equally committed and, to that end, ask that you bring some money to the closing table.

I’m based outside Houston, I bring over 14 years of managerial experience in chemical manufacturing to the table.

It's circumstantial and depends on the services and value the service provider brings to the table.

He has "hook-ups" which caused us to wait on their time table and in the end none of his "hook ups" worked and we end up paying companies to the do the work.

We expect you to be equally committed and, to that end, ask that you bring some money to the closing table.

We expect you to be equally committed and, to that end, ask that you bring some money to the closing table.

VC firms typically do not do real estate, maybe a family office but that relationship takes a good amount of time to build and as you mentioned they will want to see experience.This is a hard question, but I ask them - what are you bringing to the table?

.), not allowing access to the property (these are often vacant land deals or sometimes vacant houses), wanting to close remotely/ use a mobile notary or their own title company that is also out of state, wanting only cash offers with few contingencies, no “for sale” sign at the property, willing to sell the property for less than fair market value for a quick sale (often there’s a story that they need money quickly for their husbands surgery or some other emergency), they often have a foreign accent, and only want to communicate over the phone or electronically (for some reason they always use an outlook email and many prefer to communicate through WhatsApp).