There is a huge difference between building a 12 units in one building where every unit is 1bd/1bath and 750SF to a 12 units Square shaped complex with a pool in the middle and every unit is 2000SF with Garage and granite countertops and the first floor is all retail...I'm afraid this goes back to the good old fashion answer "it depends". 

I am pretty old fashioned in my views of the real estate market, consider it very safe (which it is much more in Europe than it is here) and generally the best investment for the long term.

That's at an all-time low now, or at least since I started lurking back in 2017.I recently got hit with an avalanche of friend requests from people who think handymen find anything but fake jewelry and porn in teardowns.

They will know the areas specific laws concerns and have them fashioned for the common problems of your given area these are based off years of local landlords and their legal regulational problems and how the courts wanted it structured. they have the tears of landlords used in them!

He has a few realtors and other folks he leans on in a similar fashion.

I've talked to locals by asking them on Angie's, next door and good ol fashioned Google.

A debt fund would simply loan money to your flipping business and your flipping business would pay interest to your debt fund, which in turn would pay interest to its investors.An equity fund would actually acquire title to the properties and the profits therefrom would be split in some fashion (there are thousands of ways to split the pie--you have to choose an arrangement that'll be compelling enough to attract investors).This is a 30,000-foot level overview, your attorney would have to help you with the details, and there are many, many details to consider that are way beyond the scope of a forum post written by a non-attorney

I usually invest in a contrarian fashion, so obviously not everyone's cup of tea.

It’s fashionable for some laws to be enforced more of less at various times than others, I’m sure everyone tries as hard as they can to be lawful.Just because a law is not enforced doesn’t mean it isn’t there.  

Glad to have some reassurance as I'm looking to scale up in a similar fashion in the Cleve!