Having them at a $0 balance does not adversely affect your credit score. 

You will still have to overcome the, "Why did buyer miss these?"

However, I'm sure many of you have faced this problem before and have already figured out how to overcome it so that your cash reserves are not the limiting factor on the amount of buy and hold deals you make.Any feedback/ideas/suggestions?

This makes a kind of sense, but I have concerns.And it's not as though I am terribly risk adverse, either.

Unbeknownst to me, I followed Ken’s advice on how to overcome this problem: leveraging your skills with OPM.Here is a brief summary of how I went from living in an 600 sq ft apartment in 2012 to owning a house in Seattle and 35 rental units across nine buildings in Everett.

@Tom Horan It looks like @Bill S. covered things pretty well above.It is kind of ironic how many landlords, particularly older ones, are adverse to doing 'owner financing' or similar when it can *maybe* solve some of their problems. 

It's just hard to over come the fact that your giving these people a opportunities, jobs, and a chance to help out their own families but they just look at you with envy.

., The central basic issue that can't be overcome with your scenario is that A LLC already owns 50% of the land. 

We are trying to overcome analysis paralysis and finally take action.

If you are risk adverse real estate, (especially out of state) is not for you.