We had people dump trash in our back yard once and I invested in chain link fence, we did have a few broken windows, grafitti issues, pest control issues but I try to just stay calm and just take it one step at a time. 

Calm down and be nice, and hopefully people will react differently and accept your offers.

Depending on the deal, a waterfall model might make sense to motivate the non equity partner to over deliver (and hence receive a large portion of the profits). 

Additionally, we saw this color on a front door at a mid-century home in city if Orange and thought looked very attractive and calming so we went for it. 

Again, other might feel differently here.b) Skin in the game: as a conservative investor, I understand that the dirty secret of industries that the waterfall compensation is in the line with me and incentivizes sponsors to take more risk.

I'm working with several investors who are nervous they're going to miss the boat, so part of my job is calm them down and remind them not to overpay, don't exclude important contractual exit strategies (full inspection, lease reviews, rental income verification, etc.). 

Jordan is a very calm person who is going to cut it to you straight which makes him easy to work with.

You have absolutely calmed my anxiety to know tax liens supersede any prior liens - one big relief for me! 

You can skip trace addresses with a service like datazap and calm them up.

My concern with the Fund model is some GP/Syndicators split out the performance of assets individually, meaning that if say there are 5 assets and two are grossly underperforming, but the other three are performing than the GP collects on the waterfall structure anyway for the performing assets (says pref 8%) or a straight split, even though the aggregate performance of all the assets is overall underperforming if you follow me.