Firstly I should say that I am the tenant in this case -- I joined these forums a while back because I was very close to being a landlord myself, however this case involves my current rental situation with my landlord.I have a unique living situation.

My are us unique though as the students only pay rent 3 times a year.

My husband and I seem to gravitate toward funky - the more unique the better.  

BP is unique in its charitable approach.

In otherwords, we allocate a portion of the return as a cost of capital before we split. example -$100,000 investmentwe provide 100% of cash at say 10%Property sells for $150,000 net at the end of 1 year.Proceeds Pay outLoan Repay $100,000Interest Repay $10,000Profit split of $40,00030% to us70% to you

As a side note, banks don't give loans on future appreciation projections, they want cash flow to secure their expectation of repayment.

I own a historical 1920s home that qualifies for the Mills Act, which reduces my property tax by about 40%. There are over hundreds of homes like this in my area. Because this is an older home, there is some wacky zon...

Let's hypothesize the owner made the bare minimum mortgage repayments and then accumulated fees and interest and that mortgage is in the vicinity of $80,000.

No business plan for my future acquisitions since each opportunity is so unique that it blows all my estimates and assumptions out of the water.

We as investors are allowed to put all the same people into our homes as we were before, but we HAVE TO "consider and verify" tons of different specific items about that persons ability to repay.