But In your situation you could purchase the SFH for most of your cash. 

Yep, we are in a similar situation.

Nobody wins in that situation. 

This will probably be the situation in 2024 and beyond.

In short its complicated:) each situation is different

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I'm skeptical about it working in the situation you describe.

We believe it’s not the buyer’s fault if title issues arise, and it wouldn’t be right to keep the earnest money in those situations.

I had a freind who partnered with someone in a similar situation, and they were able to acquire their third property much quicker than going solo.There's also the BRRRR strategy...

I was on a CA Senate sub committee in the mid 80s that was dealing with what we called antiquated subdivisions as you know CA has millions of those type of lots ( think High desert north of LA..  )  And the situation in Le high and those areas was that if you got got close to full absorption of those lots there was not nearly enough infrastructure ( especially roads) to handle these but to get them approved in the 50s state did not care they wanted to attract people to the swamps. :)