If you grow quickly or get too busy, you’ll have the funds in place to offload management without stress.5.Hire specialists, not “do-it-all” handymen.

Did you acquire the funds?

While I do maintain a relatively modest percentage of my assets in money market instruments, corporate debt funds, and high dividend stocks, I remain most comfortable with the investments I specialize in and know best.  

But even then, seller financing is rarely substantially better than another investment they could make (including trust deed lending, which will often be at a higher rate than seller financing)In my experience, the owners who find owner financing advantageous are at the ends of their careers and are not interested in looking for another investment (other than the usual retirement funding sorts.)

I agree with the others here that say you need to have some skin in the game, if you are going to live there yourself, get an FHA loan rather than owner financing, you can get a 3.5% down loan, personally I do not love these as they require  PMI which is an additional expense, and you also need  bring additional funds for closing at least for taxes, title, attorney and transfer fees . borrowing from anyone else for the down payment, to include a personal loan from the bank is not a good idea, those again will be higher int. rate.

The syndication real estate funds have seen and will see some pain.

We are starting to explore options for buying his shares to eliminate him as a risk and a roadblock but still have funds leftover for growth.

How to obtain funding from equity in homes?

- If the Association Fees are regularly increasing or the Association is poorly funded - SELL.3) How much of your TIME do you want to invest in all this?

A second mortgage or HELOC might allow you to unlock some funds without losing the 3.25% rate.- I recommend avoiding condos.