You might be able to put the title of a car, or RV, or even another property on the table if you don't fulfill the requirements of the note.If the property needs any repairs you can use your skills, if you have any, to compensate for that down payment with the agreement that the price is negotiated to a better price.

Get a decent card table and 4 chairs, drape a table cloth over it.

The seller says that he has an offer on the table for 3 million.

For someone to mentor you have have to bring something to the table.

So, if you buy with, say, a 3.5% down FHA loan, and then have to sell, you'll have to bring your "deferred down payment" to the table to sell.Rentals are, to a large extent, a cash-on-cash return game.

To gain insight on what I can go back to the table with.

So hypothetically based on your example of an ARV of $490k they would lend $318k, but after your purchase price and rehab costs totaling $335k you would need to bring that difference to the table.

My wife became more supportive when I quit talking about re every night at the dinner table.

The reason I use "investments" in quotes is because, as you indicated, Kelly Criterion is typically used by gamblers who have the opportunity to make positive-expectation bets -- most commonly sports bettors and skilled blackjack players.I actually played professional blackjack for a couple years in college, and Kelly was the basis of my overall betting strategy.

I will definitely bring all of these concerns to the table, but I am pretty sure they function more like condos.