I, personally, prefer not to be cash flow negative assuming 20% down on a deal.

The person then gets called and qualed and so it begins.I am reasonably tech savvy but not as much in this realm (not yet I guess) and nobody end to end owns the process.  

Used personal funds for literally everything.

. § 227 SEC. 227. [47 U.S.C. 227] RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT(A) to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice—

However, I personally go 1 step further as many people have outsized debt obligations. relative to their income.

Personal Finance folks I've found have $5k minimum fees and such.

So, I borrowed the money from the person that stayed in my first house as she had just sold her house and made a fair amount of money off of it.

I PERSONALLY feel the attorney should be neutral and alert me to red flags and lay out my options.I 100% understand why my real estate AGENT would push me, so ...

The schools ignore personal finance and business and hence people enter the world totally clueless as to basic concepts of business and finance.  25 years ago when I was financing small investors I made a loan to the purchaser of a small 12 unit apt complex.  

@Agustin Conti personally if he wanted to rent a pressure washer to clean it, I would reimburse the cost but I wouldn't paint it.