Some lenders can use that income to swing the DTI in your favor.

Judging from past performance, the market is not prone to more wild swings of Austin and other larger Texas cities.

Depending on what numbers your using, that could swing the deal from a great one to a good one or even maybe a bad one.

(HINT HINT I'm not going to be sitting there monitoring who is swinging what hammer.)http://assets.mymortgageinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Self-Help-Agreement-PDF.pdf 

A golf course is being constructed a quarter mile away.

Be wary that Vegas has the LARGEST swings of any US market by far.  

We are in inflationary times so I am just going to sit back & watch my asset appreciate knowing that my money is safe & not subject to the volatile swings of the stock market.

Even if you are off on what it will do to the rents I doubt you are so far off that it swings it so far one way or the other that it isn't still going to be pretty close to a tossup.

Thus, the venture pays "all cash" with no lenders involved.We all have the same education - "you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an" educated investor around here.

Brian:I do like the idea of providing transactional funding and have done it one occasion - the recipient was not a wholesaler, but a rehabber who got over ambitious on his commitments and could not swing everything in his pipeline ... but keeping his reputation untarnished was worth the cost of bridge funding.The issue I see is that I would not extend funds to most of the wholesalers with whom I have had contact for many of the reasons illustrated above: they simply do not have their act together sufficiently to give confidence the monies would be repaid.