A good partnership is when the partners bring different things to the table.

I could be wrong but I think you will have a very hard time finding a bank that will lend to you with no liquid cash to bring to the table.... no skin the the game some might say. 

It had 2 kitchens a huge living room, a pool table room, 5 bedroom & 4 baths.They are interesting pieces of history that require some very unique knowledge to maintain, but people love them.

In some markets that's gonna be even higherOf course I understand that the sellers will try to dress up the property, but what is the value that the brokers brings to the table if they do not try to bring their clients down to earth when a reasonable offer comes along?

And I am sure I will get yelled at for this but I tried.. and tried.. and TRIED.All you will find is wholesalers wanna bees and people that need help succeeding all giving each other advise without any credibility or experience to back it up.To connect with investors for success.. you need to bring something to the table.

We leave money on the table for our buyers everyday!

Any of you posting from an island run by a Mexican and a French midget in white suits?

Selling a home requires the kind of marketing expertise that only a good agent can bring to the table.

Be up front and make sure they know that you don’t have money to bring to the table and you won’t likely be able to secure financing but show them that you know your market, you know your stuff, and you’re willing to get out there and hustle.

That would at least be SOMETHING, and so it might be better than leaving 1.25 million of equity just sitting on the table untapped, but it feels kind of disappointing because it ties up a huge chunk of equity and fails to fulfill either of my two main goals: generating monthly income, and serving as a significant vehicle for further expansion in the near term.Several apparent ideas I'm actually NOT interested in trying are: investing out of state, partnering with other investors, and expanding into parts of NYC that can still be called "bargain" areas (in the later phases of a multi-year superbubble like ours, such places tend to be mind-blowingly distressed and they are simply beyond my comfort zone).