If you own cash, then you will probably have to get a loan to buy out the other person (most people don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting around to buy someone out). 

Everyone I have ever talked to (and I know a lot of people in the industry) has only said bad things about those guys.  

This is called OPM - other people’s money.

This is a great place to learn and to connect with people so take advantage of all the great resources.

One tip is too is reaching out to some people in your market place that are doing flips and see if they can send you their spreadsheet they are using.

I have heard a lot of complaints about evergreen from other people lately.

There are sites out there like passive pockets as well as this site where you can find out a lot from people who have invested with that fund.

People are unloading games all the time.

I've been hearing a lot of people re-fi'ing 3 mos after purchase.....at Brew City REI Club's last event, a lender said he could re-fi off appraised the day after purchase but you'd have to show that you did repairs. 

The contractor will give you better pricing the more you use them, some GCs increase their price, but those are the ones you would like to not use (side note, of course with inflation you need to pay your people right, but it needs to be reasonable).