Because that may sway who and how you interact also.Plus what kind of money are you bringing to the table to do this, are you broke and hoping (it's purely an academic exercise) or do you have some De-naro to put into a project(???)

If your network likes the pure equity play, you should offer that.With the "debt" financing, are you planning on using this as your mortgage, with no "traditional" mortgage ahead of it?  

Properties never perform the way you think they will and on the rare occasion you actually profit, it's pure luck, not skill.

These "investments" were pure speculation driven by a set of economic conditions which no longer exist.

I thought of banking on appreciation and rate drops as pure speculation and akin to gambling.

Is the wife on board with a pure rental property or does she want to sell, save on taxes, and be done with it?

And on top of everything, I think the last thing about my returns,  it’s absolutely 100% possible because it’s exactly what I’m doing and I’m not trying to sell one piece of property so like the old saying says when you assume you make an *** out of you and me so stop making assumptions if you don’t know have a clue about my intentions which really are exactly as I stated in pure nature and when I get out of it is a group of people I helped and in the future, I hope that comes in handy, and I’d like to prove you wrong so if you wanna direct message me, I’ll give you my email show you everything and show you how much of an idiot you are

thank you.Hi Jessica, I will say that if you're investing in California, you won't be finding any positive cash flow and it will be purely an appreciation play for the most part. 

But if your family instead was going to use it often, then you pivot from looking at it as a pure investment to looking at the value of your family’s togetherness and happiness.

I would echo what many other people are saying - decide what your reasons are for purchasing, is it purely based on returns or is it somewhere you'd like to also vacation?