There are certainly investments you can make to increase the principal in the net 5-7 years.  

You would then weigh out a lower closing price due to the bitcoins and then you would use the lower price as the principal for the loan. 

Not to mention that the likelihood of someone actually doing flip deals after taking a typical high-priced seminar is probably not very high.Therefore, it would be hard for me to believe that spending $50K on education (that doesn't even involved being principal in a deal) would be a good value.Now, if you're talking about assets worth many hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars (large apartments, large commercial, etc.), then the downside on a particular deal is easily in the 5- or 6-figures.

Not paying a friend's principal + 20% interest + points is what RAD is doing.

It cash flows gross $400 max and about another $450 goes to principal each month.  

Or they can take the cash and pay the tax.Each of this has merits and drawbacks. 

Same principal for rents, mortgage buy downs, etc.6.

Best option is to either sell the house or have her buy you out at today's market value PLUS return the money you've already invested (ie down payment, paying down the mortgage principal).

The transaction allows investors to increase the liquidity and diversification of their real estate investments while deferring costly capital gains and depreciation recapture taxes that may result from the sale of a property.Benefits: REITs also can provide the same ongoing benefits of real estate ownership including income, depreciation tax shelter, principal pay down, and appreciation.

All this fancy mumbo fha guideline gumbo means is that your projected market rents assuming all units, if it were rented Times 75% need to be greater than what your monthly payment is  (PITIA = principal/interest/taxes/insurance/assessments monthly), other wise FHA will not lend at that loan amount so common solutions to this when rents are too low in your local market are to put more money down payment which defeats the whole purpose of low 3.5% down FHA doesnt it?