You can receive down payment monies in form of a gift from a friend or family member.

I know you don't want to look like you're looking a gift horse in the mouth, but you really need to.

Before people on this board started making gift baskets for new leasee's and calling them customers instead of tenants.Pivot?

Engage in any documentation, grant, conveyance, sale, lease, trust, or gift by which the distressed homeowner clogs the distressed homeowner’s equity of redemption in the distressed homeowner’s residence[.]”

how do I "gift" a property to someone else?

Split notes – one mortgage and several notes secured by that recorded mortgage – this gives seller/mortgagee, leverage to use those separate notes as down payment on other real estate or sell at a discount, use as collateral or given as cash flow gifts to family members.Delayed payment clause - first payment to be within 6 months - gives investor time to do his thing to the property before having to make a payment.Same as above – but as investor and buyer arrange to partner with seller – using the notes to control real estate – seller wins big due to investors advance creative and aggressive method of buying real estate at a discount.

It's basically a gift to buyers.  

I sent you a gift . . . .

However, the purchase contract should be worlds apart in difference as commercial should be way more intricately designed.

I would need to gift him the money for the purchase.Are there any avenues to protect myself to get my money back?