While schools can be VERY important if your property is family oriented (3+ bedrooms, large yard, etc), it can be far less important if your house is in a retirement community, is a studio or a 1 bedroom, is a trendy "tiny house", is in a work/live space, is right downtown and close to night-life or is otherwise more geared to those without children or who are "pre-child" or "post-child".I have many friends who are either empty-nesters or who are middle-aged and childless that just love finding funky houses, close to the stuff they think is cool and who never even know where the nearest school is, much less know or care how they perform.

I also guarantee there's companies out there performing financial schemes that's probably not in the best interest of shareholders, but again, I'm not going to just root against them and hope they fail - I just avoid them for my own investments. 

I'm particularly interested in their non-performing asset program.

They will likely walk you through the basics in an attempt to get your business.Final thought, I have heard several experienced syndicators say they went out of their way to not be greedy on their first syndication so they would perform very well and thus have the investors clamoring for more deals.

By the way, it's no problem you did not add my name. this is what your attorney is warning you about.. you record the option and your buyer defaults takes a full blown foreclosure to remove that cloud.. if they wont do it voluntarily .. so they squat and your screwed the seller sues you for non performance

It still sounds low, but the increase in performance has led to a $330,000 increase in value in ten months. 

Same as aboveYour views are appreciated.I will note that if you are having one broker put it on the MLS and another one perform tasks such as advising you and Open houses, you may cause legal issues depending on the wording of each contract.

It's like sitting at a poker table. 

Poker players call it rat holing.Everyone of your choices is incredibly valid and incredibly wrong depending on the market.  10 years is probably way into another market. 

His exit strategy is longer-term buy&hold.The goal is to structure a deal where we perform owner financing on a property that has a backing mortgage.I haven't talked to the lender about it, but was curious about whether, in this case, that was even possible.I believe our vibrant community here can provide useful perspectives, and thanks in advance