Use your best judgement to determine which ones you have to slow play and which ones you have to hammer until you get the contract signed.

Those all play into it.

Sure maybe you break even on your mortgage but that’s a pretty risky appreciation game to play.

And  there are other factors at play... like taxes, comfort with leverage, your 'lifestyle', along with a substantial number of other variables inherent in investing that impact our decisions.... all topics covered on countless other threads in BP Nation. 

If you don’t nip this in the bud  now she is going to play “poor me “ single mom trying to make it in a mans world crap .

I’ve spent the last 10 years playing in the NFL.

I’ve spent the last 10 years playing in the NFL.

Also, does Capital expense come into play if you are still working an FT job and able to save a substantial amount each month?

As for me, I'm going to continue playing it safe, or as safe as possible these days. 

You will only be offering sweat equity at this point and you may get little, if any, financial return assisting a sponsor on the first deal(s) but it is often how you enter the commercial real estate game.