Or are you planning to put 100% of the risk/cost of vacancies, furnishings and tenant nonpayment on the owner with you having 0% risk?

I took the 3 day this past October (2018) and feel it was a great course, but it was a "repeat" of a lot of the info available for free on youtube, etc. 

Start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

And maybe diversify a little, invest half in a low cost S&P500 fund like VOO and the split the rest across 2 or 3 syndications.

Feel free to share more about what you’re working on—I’d love to connect and collaborate.Wishing you a productive week ahead! 

To simplify the scenario I'm envisioning let me put it this way: what does a BRRRR look like when one of the parties contributing to the down payment and rehab costs ultimately ends up being the renter as well?

I'm with you that sidewalk slip and fall litigation may be less likely in the Midwest than say Mid Atlantic which tends to have more litigious cities but dismissing premises liability issues can come back to bite an investor and when these properties have such razor thin margins that an investor must consider the cost benefit analysis of safety against ROI, there is a real estate issue and is usually a losing proposition.   

I guess it’s like free advertising.  

There are people out there who just cruise to places inventing problems so they can get discounts or free vacations after threatening low ratings.

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