I used to work directly with homeowners in a marketplace that generates fixed, guaranteed incomes for vacation rentals (i.e., property managers would essentially pay self-managing homeowners their net income and take on the expenses and work/financial risk of managing), but it was pretty crazy to see how many homeowners would confuse revenue with how much they're actually making.

That gets you around the ownership considerations for the LLCs, since none of your business entities are owned by a human person.Building credit for a business entity so it can get loans without the personal guarantee now becomes your greatest challenge.

Every signed contract is not necessarily a deal.If it's not, not only is there no shame in walking away, but to do anything else is guaranteed to be a wrong move!

If your going in and the deal would be upside down if it is shot either:- don't do the deal;- have it inspected during the inspection period, which is still not a guarantee or warranty.

The bank will want your first born with guarantees and work you into the grave to protect their money. 

However, I can almost guarantee you aren't going to get an overwhelming response from 650 letters!

My PM said the money is guaranteed, but I stipulated that the background check had to be favorable, but not necessarily impeccable.  

Until your business can stand on its own history (and likely for a while after), you'll have to personally guarantee any loan the LLC gets.

Does anyone know if in a lease option deal there is a way that I as the assigner of a lease option contract can guarantee that the option fee I receive from the tenant will be guaranteed to be credited towards the down payment of the house vs the purchase price of the house, should the tenant buyer exercise his option to purchase the home.

I do understand that this is no guarantee the title would be clear.