The rehab could go over budget or the appraisal could come back low, so the potential is there to leave money in the deal even when it looks great on paper during your upfront analysis.

There is also less tax implications/paper work if borrowing in the SOLO401Ks.We also own properties outside our retirement funds 'the normal way' :-) On those we have started using Private Money Partners to bring the down payments and we do all the work from start to finish. 

Make both tenants complete the application and background check so you have as much information about them as possible - you don't want to risk only one of them being clean on paper etc.

take the sure money if you believe its sure money on the flips and then do your own thing. those are subprime loans in MS.. not the most marketable of paper. 

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2019/05/22/kurt-cobain-paper-plate-auctioned/22k for a paper plate he wrote on.

I think the most common thing I see is the assumption of risk and ROI...folks love to see high ROI on paper, but it comes with risk.

Last ditch effort would be to go to court when they file papers and be honest with the judge and ask him what your options are.

I knew that's what I wanted to do so I had all of paper ready to go.

What you may not realize, is the visible paper losses you see, are hiding (in plain sight), compounding losses from many things...such as lost opportunities.

Sign a bunch of papers Step 5.