I just finished reading the BP's Ultimate Beginners Guide and am excited to start reading the remaining BP's books.My main goal with real estate investing is to create financial freedom.  

Since she is a computer programmer and she makes pretty decent money we have survived without going in long term debt.  

So just for joining our site, we'll email you a free download of The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to help you get started!

Assuming they spent $100k on improvements, you would ultimately "give" them $75k of equity in the property.

The story is he is a 75 year old man who works as an architect, he got cancer couple years ago survived and due to the cancer he was unable to pay mortgage.

Ultimately you will likely have to convince a seller to carry back the note.

Then, download the BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide and start reading some more!!

Ultimately for me it comes down to education, given that we are a very close family, it's important for me to know it's the right thing to do.

He also wrote a good e-book on the topic, named The Ultimate Guide to Buying Apartment Buildings with Private Money, which I recommend.Two other sources of good insight from those who recently got started raising capital for apartment syndications are:1. 

It's ultimately up to you what you check off but you always want a way out of the deal depending on what is found.