Hopefully that makes some sense.By focusing on getting title with little to no money rather than by utilizing debt, are you suggesting things like seller financing rather than traditional bank financing?

He is looking for cash so I would have to do a traditional purchase which I would want to then lease option.  

Options so far are concrete block or wood frame (the traditional choices) or SIPS.

The properties are not within an LLC because they are traditionally financed.  

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.  

Even if you are able to obtain traditional financing, be careful speculating a 20k profit in 1 year.  

My wife has perfect credit, but an insignificant income, as she only works 4 to 5 months out of the year as an Air Force Traditional Reservist.  

Its a little harder than the traditional way but nobody cares what you income is in the investing world. 

Unfortunately I am unable to qualify for traditional financing until I have 2 years tax returns in the same industry (January 2016). 

In my opinion, a traditional deal set up like this is a formula to fail.