You basically have to make your money on the cash flow or hope appreciation occurs and you can cash out later and usually it requires a lot of money down.

When the partner receives $89,500 total the partner may be considered bought out even if property sale has not occured.

Well, it works in some ways, but I guess we'll need another decade to see how this giant financial experiment we're all in will play out.On the subject of familiarity with a deal . . . for me it was a happy accident. 

Assuming that no rent increases occur.

Will the inevitable rate jump that occurs from this be bad for investors?

Wind, Flood, tornado, Hail, or third party damage or theftcan still occur.

We started doing light work and clean up, but accidently spent $20k on it.

., Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, Microsoft, Google and a handful of very well managed REITs and other stocks like STOR and maybe MPW), and "most importantly" by buying very heavily into them during mass panic sell offs, either market general sell offs like the end of 2018, the COVID crash, or stock specific sell offs that can occur for any number of reasons. 

I'm sure many of you can remember the Global Financial Crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2009 due to the government’s encouragement of broad homeownership induced banks to lower their rates and lending requirements,5 which spurred a home-buying frenzy that drove the median sales price of homes up by 55 percent from 2000 to 2007.BAs a result, Banks were handing out loans like candy to anyone and everyone, combined with the explosion of the United States run-up in housing prices fueled by demand, speculation, and exuberant spending to the point of collapse.This crisis damaged financial institutions globally which led to a loss of more than $2 Trillion from the global economy! 

The longer a deal stays open the less chance it will occur.