He asks to look at my contract, which I give him along with my assignment paperwork, disclosures, and an amendment I used to adjust the original price on the purchase contract.After a day he gets back to me stating that his "attorney has advised that he make the offer to the seller and leave the name blank on the contract with his desired terms".

I advise readers to network and partner with individuals who are doing business in their market.

You really can't win - I advise just keeping it as neutral as possible.

I strongly advise you talk to the city rental inspector now about what you saw in the property you are considering.

I'd strongly advise to go with a series LLC instead of simple LLC. 

They were advised by an RE agent to list each side for 145K but they don't want the hassle of separate deeds. 

If you're just starting out I, personally, would advise you to get a few transactions under your belt before branching out into "creative" financing unless you have a mentor familiar with those techniques to show you the intricacies.

Thank you for the precious advise. 

@Joe Villeneuve  my credit is admittedly bad, 660. this is not because of bad spending habits but because i took bad advise on how to build credit last year and opened four cards simultaneously and haven't used them enough to help my credit rating.

A "Trip Adviser" type site for the equity and debt crowdfunding industry will allow the cream to rise to the top and expose  poor investments.William believes transparency is the key to the long term success of ifunding and the fledgling crowdfunding industry.Hopefully, in the next month or so, the title of this post can change to : It Has NOT Happened: The first Crowdfunding investment that's NOT working out