It allows you to use a small fraction of your own money.

I understand the safest option is to have a lawyer review the lease, but I figured I'd try to answer my beginner questions here and not waste the lawyers time (and my money) on the "for dummies" explanation.Thank you!

You didn't mention having other money available.

It is a tough market but the money is insane so people just open business and run until they get caught and sell and open again. 

Sometimes I am willing to put some of my money in because the deal is just that good.

The other thing that I would look at is private money too you can get it for cheaper and less pricy as they can make their own terms with their money.  

Real estates makes money when you purchase the property.

They hold your money, spend it without your permission and you have to call and email incessantly to get a release of your monthly draw.

It's not so much that he is hard for me to understand, but I think the severity of my situation is hard for him to understand.Come onThe short of it is that my husband has extremely high conflict is extremely money hungry, and it really has nothing better to do with her time.

From what I've read, focusing on equity building would look like building equity in the first property, then once you have some equity built up you can do something like a refi with a cash out, or using the equity as collateral, to put money towards another property, and so on.