I closed no business and learned much less from the experience than I thought I would.Now, a year has passed and I have adopted an entirely new approach to my mentality about this entire industry. 

The smartest approach to investing is to save up the money yourself for a DP.

@Craig Oram: Hi Craig, it's been a very active market but getting your hands on MF, etc is incredibly competitive and there aren't a ton just hanging around.

The families have incredible wealth some 500 to 600 million and others into the billions.

I want to move forward with setting up a seller financed deal, but am unsure on how to approach and how to structure the deal.

I'm not really sure how to approach such a setup, though.I previous looked at going the LLC route on the 2nd property that I bought with a partner, but it was more trouble than it was worth.

I have thought of several approaches, and am wondering what others think and, of course, whether I have missed something and any of these approaches are specifically disallowed under Massachusetts law.1.

I found this one really good article on sub-dividing, and then using Oakland's mini-lot development guidelines as an approach to this: http://www.jgutierrezlaw.com/uploads/Subdivisions....Is there anyone around that has subdivided their own property in Oakland?

My wife and I are regrettably taking a DIY approach to taxes this year (probably the last year we'll do this!) 

The turnkey approach of integrated services and convenience certainly has some merit to it (if you find a good provider).