Since you're occupying it, this may not be the case.Your bigger challenge will be understanding and avoiding taxable events:1) with the IRS2) with your local Assessors Office.Be sure to look into these before doing anything.

I disagree with your version of events but your feedback and experience with us is relevant.

How YOU will be protected in the event that the project goes south and you need to be reimbursed.Is this a cash or financed transaction? 

I actually live in Santa Fe, but own properties in Abq.We are going to host a small, by invitation only networking event on Oct 16.

It seems they want to be fully protected if by some wild series of events they ended up owning the property.

In any event some lenders will count up to 75% of gross rents as income while recording mortgage, taxes, insurance, HOA fees as "front-end" debt payments.

They are also always in the BP events here under Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing.

If you're local to Milwaukee, come to our mixer on Tuesday (posted under BiggerPockets events)---there will be lots of brokers, banks, credit unions and lenders there. 

Other times, I've specifically gone to events looking for GCs and handymen who also invest or want to begin.

As all these problems arise again, it will likely swing back to sellers understanding that it’s going to cost them just as much for the firm to represent them in the event of an unrepresented buyer as it would if they just paid a buyer agent fee, but they’re more protected from future litigation if the buyer has their own representation vs claiming they were misled by a seller or seller’s agent.