Think about teaming up with a list broker to find the best target audience for your campaign.

nothing pointed at you personally but there has been build to rent projects were investors had to put up 50k non refundable and never got their house built.. so I can see putting it in escrow and releasing it upon closing for sure.. thats what i personally do with my new builds although since we average 25 to 75k of upgrades per house buyers have to stroke non refundable checks directly to us for those items.

We may have a FC coming up in Coronado - it will go for prob close to $3M. 

I can continually save up enough for another down payment through my W-2 income, but the time elapsed kind of drives me nuts. 

I hope you understand I am not beating you up, Give me/us a reason to " network" with you. 

Can I pay the management company I set up a mgmt fee?

Additionally, once micron (a large microchip processing plant) is up and running (construction is underway) there are expected to be nearly 50,000 additional jobs created in the immediate areas.

Do one, then worry about how to set it up.

I don't really want to seller finance it, but I figure that opens up my buyer's pool a bit.

Properties with room to add value don't come up here often, hence the motivation to get into this property.