One of our Co-founders is an excel wizard.

I know that's not the news you want to hear but perhaps hearing your story will lead to other helpful advice from forum participants.  

The numbers with my offer will yield excellent returns.

Collin and Michael both gave excellent advice.

But if you can find a good operator and feel good about the asset, then private money lending can be an excellent way to invest passively.

Track everything, including conversations with sellers and buyers, in your CRM and on Excel.

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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but when you look at the facts of what money was invested in and how it was handled, it leaves little to hope for.The only potential to get anything back is a potential SEC / FBI investigation to see if any fraud was at play where other assets of Norada is possibly garnished to pay back investors.

Her mother is willing to (co-sign) and has excellent credit and debt to income ratio that will more than allow but I’m not sure the best way to structure this for the house to still be in our name?  

Both are excellent platforms which save people immense amount of work and tme by compiling all the critical data you need in 1 place but there leads are way behind the county recorders/courts/notices i.e the source of most motivated seller leads.