In their early days, authors and book retailers complained that Amazon used loss leaders, selling books at a loss to attract traffic to the website, which would sometimes result in sales across other verticals.

The end result is we did not pick the highest offer. 

If using zero down finance, you have no out of pocket and you can have your tenants pay the monthly for the solar system (with a caveat that if they use excess power from the utility they are liable for that).In that scenario, you've added value to your home, your roof is an income producing asset instead of a liability and you are having that paid for by other people.

As a result, you really should get an umbrella policy in addition to the LLC to properly protect you. 

There are a couple of new sub divisions breaking ground here which will result in approximately 200 new homes in the $175K - $225K range.

We decided to rent the house instead of taking a loss and have been pretty happy with the results thus far.

In any case, if it is a fractionalized investment (a number of silent partners) it is probably done through an LLC, and the sponsor will produce a K-1 as pass through income, and will detail what kinds of returns and deductions are in that report.To fully understand this you should ask the sponsor and consult your CPA for the implications in your particular tax situation.

In some instances, you'll find a shopping area that is skewing the results. 

There are a couple of new sub divisions breaking ground here which will result in approximately 200 new homes in the $175K - $225K range.

Again, if you are buying this as a foreclosure, then this would pertain but if this is a standard transaction and not from a formal foreclosure preceding then it should have no part of the contract.Here is the NC State Article concerning the sale of property (see page 15 in subsection .22).Here is also a link to the results page from searching "10 day upset clause" in google.