Without a large down payment, cash flow can be tough to find with a traditional rental right now. 

Purchase price: $310,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Sale price: $425,000 Contributors: Peter Vekselman Partner Driven, in collaboration with Seth Choate, successfully completed a fix-and-flip on Carriage Lane, Oakdale, CA.

As part of that exchange they will be taking $500K in cash "boot". 

We have a sfr we paid cash for and is worth more than when we bought it.  

Purchase price: $710,000 Cash invested: $142,000 STR in Wheat Ridge CO What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Purchase price: $233,000,000 Cash invested: $23,300,000 single famly, 4/2.5 2 story How did you finance this deal?

Purchase price: $1,355,000 Cash invested: $135,500 Bridge House STR What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Is It possible to create an owner finance contract; and have it written up with a note buyer (or not) so that: #1 The owner receives what she wants for cash when selling the note. #2 The buyer of the note receives what they want out of the terms of the note. #3 The purchaser of the property and making the payments on this note, (myself) can afford the monthly payments because of the rental income.

I purchased a fourplex using a HELOC on my primary residence so technically we bought the fourplex "cash" with no mortgage.   

Reason to rent is to have to a loan payed off and a few hundred dollars each month cash flow after all expenses.