If that's the case, it would seem you would prefer a financing structure that rewards a quick flip rather than one that piles on the points at origination.

To be a great asset to the investor, it takes a lot of grunt work with small rewards.

This is obviously person-specific and represents a risk/reward tradeoff, but I was wondering what people's comments about debt are.

Wow Josh that is not many out of 70,000 plus members.Maybe some type of reward system to get people to post more to the forums or something is needed.

Do they want to be a deal partner, an equity partner, assuming a higher risk for a potentially higher reward or would they prefer a stated interest rate?

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If the deal is pitched as a situation where you don't have to do any of the leg work, any of the research, you just give them the money and sit back and reap the rewards, then chances are you're going to get burned again.

They will want a large reward for doing such a deal.

If you coulda, you woulda, you can't or didn't, and who's going to reward the seller who didn't with a price as if they did?

Finding cash buyers can be challenging but also VERY rewarding.