The reward of seller financing single family over renting our weighs the risk.  

They are always looking for 110% from you and you often go home tired, but the work can be very rewarding if you let it. 

With that, here I am.I know next to nothing about REI, but I have always had an interest in RE since I was young and I actually used to want to just work at Home Depot just to be around it all, so I have no doubt that this will be fun an rewarding in the long haul.I cannot wait to look back at 2015 and see how I have grown over 3, 5, or even 10 years after making this executive decision.All that being said, I love just reading and listening to all I can right now and it is a blast filling my notebook with all the information I am finding here in the community and that is really my primary focus for the foreseeable future.

I will be honest, I am a newbie to REI, but with high risk comes high reward right?

By and Large my business takes on problems from irresponsible people, fixes them and offers a beautiful property to responsible people.In just the last 6 months:I bought a thrashed house from the parent of a pill popping gun nut who had numerous run-ins with the police, including an armed stand-off with an AR-15!!

I would call and email numerous times and she wouldn't return them. 

I agree leveraging is intimating, but big risk = big reward!

However, I've contacted numerous portfolio lenders and they are all saying they will only cash out up to 80% of the COST or FMV whichever is less.  

However, there is a reason LLCs were invented, and there are numerous examples where insured people get sued for stuff that insurance will not cover.

I found my method to be the most rewarding and least risky.