That “something” has to add value to the mixture or the investor doesn’t need you.If you don’t want the investor to “steal the deal” you want the investor to need you as much as you need them.  

By that you can invest in your own commercial or Multi-family deals, invest in a syndication, partner with others or to a mixture. 

During the summer, I painted the steps with paint that had sand mixture in it to provide a little bit better grip. 

There was a good mixture of new and veterans investor and everyone had a blast.

During the height of the recession, we had used car prices spike (due to cash for clunkers), corn prices spiked (due to ethanol mandates), and oil prices spiked. 

Should I finance the home purchase, rehab, and holding costs with the Portfolio Loan or a mixture with cash?

I had a mixture of skill level.

It's a mixture of commercial (5+ units) and residential properties.  

The cash tenants I (used to have) were a mixture of good and bad before the pandemic so I can’t imagine what it would have been like to have to deal with any of those during the pandemic and their “rent strike nonsense”. 🤦🏾 

Over the years we have had to corn blast  ($$$$) them and reseal the cabins.