He is willing to hold back a note (not ideal for him, but he is open to it), and he said he would be willing to subdivide the lot before the sale as long as he didn't have to put in any of the legwork, basically just sign the papers.  

:) The first property was brought from an ad in the paper.

High cash flow only on paper. 

Recurring payments can be set up through one of many vendors by passing some papers and signatures and a voided check.

If you are good with a computer, you can create the letter on the computer with a handwriting font and then print on an INKJET printer with blue ink onto a piece of yellowpad paper (just the regular old yellow pad paper with lines on it from the office store - take it to the service counter and ask them to cut off the very top of the pad that has the glue stuff that holds it all together).

In the scenario presented in the paper, and assuming that he's getting 8% after tax return: he's going to guarantee the bank 7.42% and take on the full risk of an 8% after-tax-return investment to net himself 0.58%.

Post an ad in the local paper ?

Property hits different channels of advertising such as MLS, websites, papers etc for all kinds of reasons.

Ordering a title report is the equivalent of using toilet paper after going #2.

A "witness" is vouching they actually saw the signatures be put to paper but their credentials are not presupposed to be valid.