Working in your business is a good way to use sweat equity to get started.

You will find a lot of investors I assume that would be willing to help you if you give some sweat equity back in return(going through MLS for deals, walking properties for them, etc).  

If you can't get into the game on your own right now, see if you can become part of someone else's team by offering sweat equity.

We used a VA loan and a lot of "sweat equity".

That way you have wiggle room to devote some time into putting in sweat equity.  

You know, purchase price, sale price, etc. also, the # of hours of toil and sweat you spent on oh, so many things.

I wouldn’t sweat what you did.

I have been to multiple open houses and only seem to be finding homes that are expensive and need a lot of work and won't be worth the sweat equity nor the cost of the property itself, or homes that are really nice but that are out of my price range and won't be a good ROI because the updates are already done and there's no cash flow.

Ideally you find a slightly distressed property and you can add some sweat equity to add value to the property. 

Can someone please explain to me what a mini-mortgage is and how it works when you have a partnership on a STR and one person is the “Money” and the other is the “Sweat equity partner?”