They all seemed to be tilted towards whole selling.

Solar hot water systems (popular in the Carter administration), used large, usually tilted up panels on the roof to preheat hot water or glycol in order to lower the homes electricity and/or gas consumption and to heat hot water.

Finally the Atty handeling the Tilte work has been able to get a real person on the phone there and we now have someone handeling the rest of the deal.

One wall of the basement is tilted a little bit but already settled.

Parking lot tilted toward building, place just needs some good loving.

For example, on a given night in poker, I could easily win or lose $10K -- in real estate, you'll spend weeks/months to win/lose $10K.In poker, if you go on tilt and make some bad decisions, it may cost you some money, but you'll wake up the next day ready to start over -- in real estate, you may have months of lost sleep waiting for a deal to finally be over so you can "start fresh."

Otherwise it can be like tilting at windmills.John Corey

Even if the equity split is tilted to the GP relative to stabilized or value add opportunities, the extra return over a value add in the high teens will help incentivize LPs to invest (and compensate for the added risk).I have seen a shady practice where sponsors hide from GP titled splits in new development and show the ownership % of one unit rather than disclosing the actual split. 

So in sum, I think cash flow and appreciation are a balance, tilting in favor of high cash flow markets.Who benefits from high appreciation markets?

If "owner financing" is your version of "Starbucks" in my example and making you tilt your neighborhood assessment, rehab assessment, give that overaggressive Zestimate a little too much weight, etc. you'd better find a way to level things out.