Not entirely true John, but I see the angle you are telling Kristine to try.

A pergola all along the front, and a deck or patio, with the sidewalk comimg into the front, nice wide mulch beds with landscaping.

With Absentees, you have to have a wide enough net to qualify your prospects (this is done with your list) and a deep enough net to catch them when a distress might hit them (done by how many times you reach out and touch them) Just being an Absentee is not enough reason to sell at the price you're going to want.

Adding more value than one captures is antithetical to what IS widely accepted sound business practice.Dont tell anyone, but I AM a Chump!

You could even ask for a co-guarantee agreement from partner and cross-collateralize that with his/her other real estate if you don't like the amount if skin they have in the game.I don't really like the liability of being on title so I was thinking of the equity share angle.

Not to mention they could have a wide range of retail values.

First property, im 25going into business with motherproperty consists of 3 houses, 7 single wide mobile homes.. all 10 dwellings on same piece of landwill be financing (as little down as possible to max leverage)net worth is < 30kthats the deets!!!

All, especially housing, are at a premium here.Spare rooms - $600-1,000/mo.Single wide mobiles $800-1200/bed room/mo. (3 beds=$3,000)Small cabins (1 bedroom-12x24') $1,250-2000/mo.28' travel trailer (no slide out) $1,200-1,700/moRV lots $500-800/mo.This was mostly an agriculture and tourism area so the roads are taking a beating.

I am going to attack this at all angles since I'm long on time.

You'll get a wide range of opinions, with licensed agents like your mom almost certainly saying you can't do this sort of thing.