Put sweat equity as well as my few dollars into the project. 

I want to succeed at what I put my blood sweat and tears too. 

It took a lot of work and sweat.

The BRRRR strategy can work because someone is improving a dilapidated house and (hopefully) putting more value into it than it costs due to working with good contractors, sweat equity, etc.

Wanting to find a partner with some capital in exchange for me self-managing/sweat equity.

PM me if you'd like the contact info.I put a good bit of sweat equity into this deal to continue furthering my knowledge which will ultimately aid in working with contractors on larger projects (I've put some degree of sweat equity in all of my smaller deals since 2011).

So don't sweat it too much.

You can force a higher RTV ratio on the buy and lessening the dollar cost of the value-add through sweat.  

We have gotten great deals, but there is definite sweat equity through dealing with the red tape! 

I bought my first rental property in 2007 out of foreclosure and put a ton of 'sweat equity' into the property by fixing it up myself.