Will your property generate enough income that you can pay taxes and insurance, you'll have enough profit AND you'll have the cash to pay for all the capital expenditures that come up on occasion?

While I still try and get it for all my SFH rentals, on certain occasions I will accept a minimum of first and security but allow them to pay that "last month" in installments - say, an extra $250/mo until it's paid.  

On occasion, in addition to my own real estate investments, I have provided some private financing to investors that I had an established relationship with.  

I was suggested to join some local community and found SJREIA but....something odd about that community:The address on Yelp is different from the one on their main website.Tried calling and emailing them on many occasions but never got any response back.Plus, it's $300+ per year on annual fee...But, I'm just glad I've found BP so no complaints here..:)

I have done this on multiple occasions.

That said, there have been several occasions where I have actually called the trustee asking them to rescind and send me my money back.

Dont get me wrong I have a corvette I drive on occasion and a crotch rocket but that stuff came as a result of paying cash for consumer items like a cars or a computer.

Brian:I do like the idea of providing transactional funding and have done it one occasion - the recipient was not a wholesaler, but a rehabber who got over ambitious on his commitments and could not swing everything in his pipeline ... but keeping his reputation untarnished was worth the cost of bridge funding.The issue I see is that I would not extend funds to most of the wholesalers with whom I have had contact for many of the reasons illustrated above: they simply do not have their act together sufficiently to give confidence the monies would be repaid.  

I also rent right so my vacancies are minimal but that can cut into the $400 on occasion.

I have had architects on more than one occasion design something that could not be built because of some minor oversite and I had to pay for design revisions.