To boot, this is can be 30 yr fixed.Find a mortgage banker that does this and it might meet your need.

With Jacksonville being one of the most productive real estate markets in the Nation right now, per Forbes Magazine, the area is being flooded with newcomers from out of state, anyone that's local or have firm boots on the ground will have an advantage to hook and acquire the deals.

I was booted out of the International Physicist's Consortium because I theorized that the quantum wave length of cobalt 7 added to the instability of the linear mass of Wall Street's hyper volatility leading to the melt down in 2008.

Boots on the ground. 

I would do the financing and my family member would self manage at the property and get a cut of the cash flow, this to me is a low money down option and also not very time consuming as I would not be the boots on the ground.  

Unless of course they are part of the deal, i.e. they are the boots on the ground/sweat equity and you are the finance part of the team, then it makes sense. 

To boot, you didn't buy it?

Looking for insight from those with boots on the ground.Bought a 2/1 in downtown Hoboken in 2012. 

Since $5000 is low, what would be a good "ballpark" number to initially analyze a deal before putting boot on the ground?  

Obviously the partner in the market of the property will have more boots on the ground influence but that doesn't necessarily mean a large cut of that property if building a portfolio is the goal.