My thought was:1 - I put the down payment and assume the mortgage.2 - Contractor (no skin in the game at this point) buys materials to complete the necessary upgrades3 - When it is done we sell the property and subtract the down payment, material cost, mortgage payments, utilities, settlement costs - and then whatever is left we split.  

Joel, welcome to the game!

If you're in the flipping business then I think there is always the game of Russian Roulette involved.

For example, are you the kind of person where, if you invested a few/several thousand in a course, that'd you'd be motivated to the point of not failing because of that skin in the game?

As for purchase price, anything you can use to get a better price is fair game.

There are franchises that do STR management in many markets and can probably get you stats for the various ones they are affiliated with.

Game cameras are cheap and can give you other angles of the house on the super cheap.

I know the pains and struggles of the self-employed game, and I haven't used traditional financing for any of my properties, as I still haven't hit that 2-year mark.

Younger investors, or older ones without kids and parents and dogs and other such things can certainly choose to live in a duplex unit.I don't expect this to be a game changer, although I do expect that it will change the way ADUs are appraised.

. #1 getting deals is about making lots of offers and its a numbers game and offers have contingecies.