I'm in need of advice...I recently purchased a home in a great school district from an estate.

That link above is to a private school that teaches and "certifies" 203k contractors, and is not necessary, or recognized by FHA.  

My question is, when you find something like this, and you don't have the funding ability(I work at a school and have TRS not a 401k, so I cannot take a loan out against it, nor do I have 20% down, but I have about 60k in equity in my home, but the lenders I have talked to will not do a HELOC in my state, point is I can flip, but not buy and hold with my own financing) and you need a partner on the deal, how do you protect yourself from telling them about the property and them just taking it?  

Left school in 11th grade.

Graduated from Pearland High in 2003.  

Schooling in my town is amazing, so there is no issue with that.Transportation to NYC is literally 2 minutes on every corner to the bus, so that isn't an issue.Additionally, I was told that I should stay away from homes with oil tanks for heating because if the oil tank was to leak, the soil would be contaminated and it would cause a big headache and a big whole in my wallet.

I have chosen my niche which will be students flats.At the time I am studying construction civil engineering and I want to buy my first house next year (3 years left of school) in the big well known city among tourists and students in one of the european country.

I am wondering if the season being August and before school starting days has any effect on not having enough showing or is it actually the price being too high?

My DTI ratio isn't that good because I'm a recent graduate.

(My ex wife is from China, so one time, we decide that she wants me to go to China and I decided instead of working, I go to school and get my MBA) I can speak in Chinese.