You live with that person and don't want any awkward feelings, so you say, "Oh man, that sucks!  

I have been in the construction business since I was 17 years old and was a funding control man for that Savings and Loan.

Paid me and another guy only 5000 under subcontract to do the job with the promise of letting the other man live there after it was done.

Man that's crazy to think someone would take out the furnace.

Google him for his Creative Financing Course.Get solid, impeccable, and Georgia-tested Sub2 paperwork (again, I say Dyches is your man).Don't even think of not doing a formal closing with a real closing attorney and a HUD-1 and title insurance and everything.Here's a pro tip: Your biggest risk from Sub2 isn't the DoSC; it's the seller who conveniently "forgets" they sold you the house two years from now and accuses you of bamboozling them into giving away their house.Good luck!

You're the man, @William Hochstedler.

Keep at it man, you'll get to that first pay day in due time.

With that said, a judgment is not an automatic no go under my rental criteria.Would be great to learn how others have incorporated judgments into their criteria.  

They are trying to make thousands of dollars without adding any value to the transaction (at least the initial wholesaler found the deal and got it under contract).From a free market point of view, if the #s are good it shouldn't matter who the middle man/men/women are or how many, but as a practical matter "too many cooks spoil the broth" and I'll avoid those deals no matter how good they seem.

Then they own a $20,000,000 building with not a lot of money out of pocket.I asked my original question because there are also equity brokers out there who play middle man and make a big fee from bringing the two parties together.