I mean if a seller has any real estate knowledge at all isn’t he going to realize that earnest money that is returnable to the buyer for any reason at all at any time isn’t really earnest money?  

I've owned student housing as far as 4.1 miles from the University of South Carolina campus.In my experience, the only reason kids would live that far away is cheap rent.

@Brad Kanouseno reason to do this. 

I am a power user for Zoho for a number of reasons including following:Zoho CRM, truly the beast out there.

For example if one partner brings the 20% down payment and the other will do the labor for renovations then what would be a reasonable split be.

The reason I asked about the amount is I see people always searching for the "perfect note" when they had 100 opportunities pass right by and spend thousands to buy 5 loans a year which they could have done little work and still found similar loansWe buy non performing to get them reperforming and we also have some shorter term RTL's (performing) for cash flow purposes.

There's usually a good reason why the entry points are lower.

For those looking to expand or diversify their real estate portfolio, Columbus offers a compelling case for investment.Hope this provides some insightful value to those on the fence of investing in Columbus OhioAnother amazing reason to invest in Columbus!

This triples your headache.BE the voice of REASON to your friend. 

This is literally the entire reason these companies exists - to get this stuff right.As for why, I have no idea why there has been an uptick.