Your requirement to use their money can stem from your business model an leverage that isn't available conventional with the number of properties you intend to work with, the cost to obtain financing is less costly allowing the seller to receive more down, and allowing you to obtain future financing for operations are just some of the reasons you may require financing.

I would appreciate any recommendations for professionals well versed in Canada-US Real Estate Investing.Someone with expertise in dealing with Texas, Indiana and/or Georgia would be fantastic.If you know of someone I would be most grateful!

You'll get lots of ideas and opinions, some more appropriate to particular levels of expertise or situations than others.

Blockbuster’s business model was essentially annihilated by new media consumption.

My client was a Private Equity firm founded by some MIT and McKinsey alum that bought several thousand units from Baltimore to Trenton and were selling the model of institutionalizing the single family rental market in the US.

I don't think that's a good model I rather work with a few and know exactly what they are looking for and send them the props that they can move on quick instead of a bunch of over priced crap..

You could do a hybrid, some of it open (like limit it to let's say 10 searches a month for free) and other parts closed with more benefits (like unlimited searches) if you become a member.BP has this model with the File Place area.

If her business isn't profitable or needs improvement the time might best be spent there instead of doing something that you do not have an expertise in.

In my comment I was basically speaking to those landlords who have an ineffective business model and think that papering over it will eventually solve it.

I'm not sure if these B2R funds operate precisely that way or have made material adjustments to this model.