Using a phone or table for everything is not always the most efficient method. 

I think the easiest way to find the right partner is to find one that you are aligned with as far as investing in rental properties.The other option would be to keep flipping properties until you get enough money for a down payment on a rental.Another option would be to look for a BRRRR (buy, rehab, rent, refi, repeat) because then your friend could still bring money to the table and you could pay them back their portion plus interest and then you keep the rental property.What area of Chicago did you do your flip in?

Quote from @Selina Giarla:All this being said...I CANNOT find a good deal.The proper translation of “I cannot find a good deal” is “I cannot find people stupid enough to leave money on the table.”The proper response to that is: “Why should they?”

Like this morning I went on a pretty tough mountain bike ride.

But when we get to the closing table we usually have a pretty good idea about what we're going to have to spend to bring the property up to our standards and how much it's going to cost us to do it and over what time periord.

I’m probably making a mountain out of a molehill and it would just be better to let it happen but unfortunately this guy has poked the bear and I’m really angry. 

By assigning an agreement to someone who then completes the purchase, you have in fact brought that consideration to the table at the time of the transaction.I'm wondering if there was some other intent of that language - such as to prevent a homeowner from being screwed out of their house via some "creative financing" scheme that benefits a 3rd party (e.g. investor) while not providing any (reasonable) compensation to the seller.

I stayed near Asheville, NC for a weekend in a Glamping Dome in the mountains.

Ideally I would like to purchase a apartment condo (1000 sq foot) in the Mountain View Sunnyvale area and pay additional money instead of paying rent and building zero asset.

I have a successful 3 bedroom STR in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.