The proposal sounds promising, and I wanted to reach out to see if anyone here has experience with this type of arrangement.The investor has offered to give me $10,000 upfront, which seems to indicate that he has some skin in the game.

Your learning will accelerate when you have skin in the game. 

Funding companies and banks are concerned that the cash out will not be used for business purposes and that the investor will not have enough skin in the game if things get tougher.If you qualify for government or agency financing that's great, but many of our investors do not and they rely on small banks and funding companies.

If you are sensitive to the potential for people leaving, then do it in segments. 

I can only speak from a lender's perspective, but we're going to want to see some "skin in the game" from the borrower.

In my opinion.And, as I mentioned, it's also always possible to negotiate to simply get the neighbor to deed over enough property to meet the boundary requirements so his property meets the setback requirements.Lots of ways to skin this cat.

I'm not talking about a retirement shift, I'm talking about understanding how growing your portfolio with the (new) inherent risks in a rate sensitive, supply shortage, location premium real estate market.

They use Zendesk, so it's safe to upload sensitive documents.You can also try to reach them on support AT zgrentals.zendesk.com.I know how stressful it is to be waiting to hear from them, only to get radio silence!

I agree with Jay, I want to see the numbers, the experience of the sponsor and how much skin they putting in the game.

To you point, when the payoff timeline is so compressed, it’s really not an interest rate sensitive loan.