The impact to both of their economies, and the global market overall is too high and the risks, both financial and political, are very high too.

If you are asking for 75k on a deal with 100k that is more risk obviously, therefore, they would want skin.

My worry here is the long amount of time I'd have to carry this extra debt, and that it might sour an otherwise good deal with this payment on top of a commercial loan. 

There is also the risk thing.

They bring folks back to earth in regard to there is risk, not leveraging to the nth degree and have really honed in on their niche. 

That puts you in a property now if you've got the down or can get a gift from family.Alternative is saving to buy the land for cash (very few land lenders) or ask to have a seller carry.

Yes, I'm looking for any misc. companies that provide public records on seller carry backs, "private" notes, whatever you want to call them as long as they're owned by an individual or small/mid company.

Really good ones are so rare that if an investor has one they don't want to take the risk of loosing them to another investor.

Someone mentioned the 1% rule, however if other expenses such as property taxes or maintenance are large, it might still not cash flow.Every deal needs to be analyzed in its own right to see if you're comfortable with the risk/return.  

I don’t have any prior experience with real estate would would be the best way to get started that wouldn’t be too much of a financial risk here in the Las Vegas area