I'd recommend looking into that and potentially partnering with a wholesaler who can send out your land deals for you, and just cut them off a chunk of change. 

Since the first position buyer was a neighbor and my client's offer was financed, it was difficult to compete, but there are some steps buyers and their brokers can take to outwork cash and other offers. - Position.

To find strong rental markets, crunch the numbers for potential rental properties and do your market research.

So, looking at the flips I take on, with anticipated profits in the $70k+ range, the setup costs alone are eating nearly 20% of your potential profits, and that is before any real splits with your investors, leaving both your investors and you with not a lot of money left to spread around.A fund could work, but typically, for the economics of a syndication/fund structure to work, you are looking at several million of equity, leveraged up to high single millions, if not into $10+ million range for their to be enough money to make it worth everyone's efforts.

You want to invest just to have a place to live and potentially offsetting your mortgage payment by renting out the vacated rooms or having x amount of cashflow in the future?

In the future, I think both the large house and the ADU have great potential for AirBNB or Medium Term strategies.

So, does a 3rd party purchase the property and the buyer pays the 3rd party?

I've purchased two properties personally utilizing seller financing and represented at least a handful of buyers acquire properties with private mortgages over the past five years including friends and family members.

Police reports will also be required, and someone is potentially going to jail.  2.

There's also potential for developing "shared living" units where 2 or more people could share space, etc.