Typically homes bought at significant discount are labeled as “atypical” in the county meaning they didn’t go for as much as they should for whatever reason.

They typically don’t label themselves as Bird Dogs either.

Have them private label some cases for you, so you have a story.

No, I think it is their self described "band of scrappy bankers and engineers" actually just trying to create a white label service where the QI has no liability and no effort to expend other than holding the money in some account doing heaven only knows what to make their profit.  

Quitting college doesn't count as GritUntil you get at least 2-3 of these ingredients,  don't change course.  

Many times, when someone has never heard of something before or knows nothing about it they automatically rule it out and label it "too much risk" or think it can't be done.  

You have the key ingredient to make it...desire.  

However, like I said, if I were to actually carry out the strategy I basically "back-of-the-enveloped" this morning, I would add some ingredient involving greater effort and greater likely profit, such as short-term rentals, to guarantee positive cashflow.Let's look at the position a hypothetical investor like OP would be in if she actually bought 13 multi-family properties like the ones I described.

Your comment on distribution and contribution makes sense though That term is usually used for when the loan/mortgage is under your personal name and then you transferred the deed to the LLC.But if you meant just commingling funds, that's usually a no-no but you must make it clear in allocating those funds between contribution and distribution so that you have a paper-trail of what happened to that money and this way it won't be labeled as commingling

The best sponsors are using white label tools and attracting capital on their own.