Option 2 guarantees the full $12,640 is paid.

- who will it be raised from- who will borrow it- who will guarantee itWho gets what out?

The issue is that you are weighing the cost of the potential lawsuit versus the guaranteed additional costs and administrative requirements of protection.

There is nothing GUARANTEED in RE Investing.

With credits from the seller they could be $3,500 but I'd rather get that as a bonus and not count it as a guarantee. 

Guaranteed if you are getting good enough returns you can use some of that money for your own personal expenses, but in order to reach a goal of 5 million I feel virtually everything would have to go straight back into your business.

google Ingrid Robinson  Remington financial American Greed.this version these are off shore crooks or if they are here you will NEVER find them.. you can file a complaint with the AG's office is probably all you can do.. but to spend money on an attorney I pretty much guarantee you will just be more money down the drain. 

Househacking isn't guaranteed to be profitable just because it exists in concept.

There is an intrinsic guarantee that eventually highly leveraged investments will eventually lead to your complete and total failure.

The "Guaranteed Rate" is nothing more than the insurance company's worst-case interest rate scenario.