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There are a lot of tire kickers across the board, so that's part of the game, but they might just not know how the neighborhood works.

Non- recourse are the exact opposite: you are not personally responsible but it requires certain criteria like experience etcetera: These are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.All professional real estate investors go with non- recourse.Real estate is a numbers game, the bigger the better.

It's the best way to determine if you are winning or losing in this game.

You May have to share a % of equity with him but he will have real skin in the game then. 

A true TK will have their own PM team.... full skin in the game. 

Soon you will find a network of higher net worth investors who got out of the sfh direct investment game and now laugh at this race to 10.

I also track auction.com and Amlin auctions, but I've never pulled the trigger on any as I need a little more cash to get in the auction game.

The game plan was to fund with a commercial loan upfront, and reinvest all of the initial cash flow back into the property so that I could ultimately pull my capital out.

Definitely swings the numbers a little bit, but the extra ~$500 / year for a SFH or duplex shouldn't change the game too much.