I've done a fair amount of background reading on the topic, but am looking for a lawyer with experience structuring real estate equity/debt deals to help me draft operating agreements and promissory notes as well as provide some guidance on my Private Capital strategy.Thanks in advance for the recommendations!

Say you had enough for 10% down on a good deal would It be wise to get private money for the rest (projecting a mortgage of 1500 and PML payment of 500 and cash flow 700/mo) Let’s say you have exhausted all friends, family, colleagues for that other 10%, are there private lending companies out there that would negotiate terms?

Or find private money. 

After many conversations I guess Private insurance normal there.

If it's a private individual, small company, etc, you can try to call them to work something out. 

I use a scratch-N-dent place outside of Philadelphia, PA (private owner, small company) and after my last appliance purchase back in April 2018, he said the same thing.. all appliances went up about $25-100 depending on size (so a standard 30" frigidaire SS went from $1500 up to $1600 now), etc. 

Shoot me a private message

owner is offering to seller finance a property he owns.buyer wants the property but wants owner's mortgage to him to be in 2nd position to his (private money) down paymentwhy would a seller risk the chance to foreclose if payments are missed by taking 2nd position to the private money lender?

You'll usually need some sort of guarantor that will not declare bankruptcy the minute something goes wrong; too easy to do that in an LLC.Once you have a track record, private money folks will lend to you, and on larger properties (large MF) commercial real estate banking looks almost exclusively at the property.Spend some time researching the financing options.  

But i know a private lender that I'm close with and I have done deals with in the beginning. shoot me a message on here directly, his name is Victor and he owns his own private lending company and he lends to beginning investors like ourselves. just shoot me a message so that i can recommend him to you. let me know Happy investing Jamell