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Perhaps you could consider hard money in addition to private money?

With some additions, this would qualify for the OMG category, but I think they didn't have that category back then when it was on the market.

Do you have additional capital to add?

The 50% is rather deep a cut, especially with all the additional operational expenses not included into that 50%.

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An example of that is tenant must pay for additional electric over flat fee / flat limit since now there is 2 occupants in the home instead of originally one.

We rehabbed the entire property and added an additional bedroom to each of the units.

Of course they would want additional appreciation on top of principal but any DST sponsor will tell you that they factor in the up-front load on their underwriting and  likely will overcome that up front load.