On the surface, I would consider house hacking here and play the appreciation game.

Your due diligence was done late in the game.

Don't focus on how you'll behave during an after-game press conference as a WNBA star when you haven't even played your first pickup game.Buy a property, learn how to manage it well, and see if this is the right investment vehicle for you.

I marketed this property as a business - as it brought in 155K in gross revenues , could go to 180K with some extra work.I see many people who got into the airbnb game 3 years ago trying to unload now, almost at cost.

Looking for creative ways to get in the game.

@Jesse Santos whenever a prospective tenant wants to negotiate I tell them: “sure we’re always willing to accept more”, and then I don’t say another word.As a rule of thumb, if you enter into the negotiating game with a prospective tenant early on, you will be living with that their entire tenancy on all their maintenance requests, late payments, pet requests, etc.They have already shown you who they are as you thought the initial negotiations were over and then they brought you to round two.

The purchase would likely need to be consummated at the higher price in order to establish the "damages" to which you are referring... and then I would refer you back to the other potential issues I raised with respect to a negligence claim.Responding to a demand letter with "go pound sand" is not the same thing as defending a lawsuit.I just don't see any attorney taking this $12K case to trial and that is what you are suggesting as the end game.

So I require skin in the game (average is 5% to 15%) to offset this.

Despite feeling late to the game, I'm committed to learning and aiming for my first deal in 90 days.

On the other hand, if you are looking for people that just give you money and you run the deal (limited partners, aka passive investors) that is an entirely different ball game.