The financial benefit has to be in the Solar Company's favor, just as leasing a car or apartment is in the dealer/landlord's favor in the long run.  

Not only could you possibly get your entire cash purchase price back (as shown on HUD-1) you even have the opportunity to roll closing costs into the loan if you the numbers work in your favor (you need a great deal to make all of this happen).

Creative financing is a curious termYou can be a real estate operator instead of an investor and make money with very little capitalWhen I present to the seller that has very little equity like 95% loan to value, they are stuck, and they need some helpIt is up to the real estate operator to show how song on charms will help preserve the little equity dollars instead of selling cash with an agentSubject to and wraps have their place when buying on terms if you buy on sub 2 and a note you can structure the note in such a way that is in your favor, such as a moratorium or interest-only payments etc.Sometimes you don't want to but you just want to get the cash flow and do a master lease or a master lease option in case of multifamilyYou going to need some money to have a real estate operations so think about recruiting some capital.

In our area, rents are rising much faster than inflation because investors are taking advantage of the supply-demand being in their favor and raising rents for that reason, not so much because of a rise in taxes, insurance and operating costs.

Sometimes favorable terms will push the purchase price up a little bit, but it still absolutely has to make sense as and investment.

It seems the term "open and obvious" is helping defendants (ie owners) receive favorable court decisions. 

Its also a odd shaped lot which doesn't work in the favor of any seller.  

The con is that I think HELOCs have less favorable terms.  

Indiana is probably more favorable only because of the distance to California.

My last employer I lost the match with the union contract favoring a Crappy pension(I was able to get a buyout when I left thankfully).