Even though you may pay 11 or 12% interest plus a few points, that total cost should be less than offering your half or more of the deal.

I'm willing to travel up to 50 miles, and invest my time and sweat equity into getting things done. 

If the deal is for $140k all cash (and you get $40k right back), you're probably OK. but any half-wit loan officer the tenant uses will see right through what you did, which is to artificially bump up the market history of the property to influence the appraisal and mortgage size the tenant is applying for.

The problem with pictures they only tell half the story.

You are hard pressed to find any in half way decent areas of DFW that make it past the exclusive period.I love all things Texas, but there's really no comparison between SA and DFW.

For a new investor, is it wise to buy and fix  houses  100 miles away from you?

The only experience I have is purchasing my home and taking the first half of the Realtor's Class in College.

They told me how much it would cost, and I paid them.I did buy water/gatorade/juice and put it into a cooler on a day that was really hot, but then I saw half-drunk bottles all around my house, and stopped that.

Over half of the United States sell tax deeds...

Could I get a hard money lender to lend half of the loan to the seller, if she doesn't want to do seller financing?