(He may chip in later, seeing as his name got highlighted.

Then he/she could not come back and use you as a bargaining chip later.

We chip in to pay for the room, so very nearly free. 

But don’t let another player take your chips.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.  

I'll send you 2 dozen baked chocolate chip cookies, to say Thanks!

While I am certainly not an expert in solar or real estate, my advice would be to present the numbers to the seller as a bargaining chip.

I am able to leverage myself into several positive equity positions where, for the same amount of cash using traditional methods, I would have been able to acquire less than one third the number of properties or amount of equity.Cash flow and equity positions are, in my mind, very similar to tech stocks and strong dividend producing blue chip stocks.

Sometimes the folks giving advice on here , like Al Gores brother hehe, are so stupid you wonder why they have survived because they are not smart enough to open a bag of chips to keep from starving, then I run across folks I want to just sit and listen to because I feel like am getting smarter from listening to them. 

You want more control, take the chips off and go find another deal to create greater cash flow and equity for yourself.