They can help navigate challenges, identify market opportunities, and offer sound advice based on their own successes and failures.Risk Mitigation: Sharing the risk with other investors can reduce your exposure and help protect your assets.

If the cost exceeds the benefit, that must be revealed, and just like buying and selling a home, most of the players are incentivized to keep the product moving, not to do your own due diligence. 

I do think we're going to have a rough market for a while until property sellers realize they can't sell at the astronomical prices they have for the past few years.

I'm not selling! 

Much owner financed real estate is done to either sell property that won’t qualify for financing or to sell for a higher price to someone who wouldn’t qualify for financing.  

Can be concurrent with identifying civil engineer to design access and utilities and architect.

You have the rights to sell the property, and the remaining profit will be waived. 

There are a lot more condos coming on the market now: a lot of people are looking to sell after the strong appreciation in the past few years and there are thousands of new units being added by new development projects that are now being completed. 

Some of the collection agencies sue if they think it will be profitable (they've identified assets and you haven't sued).

At some point in the near future I will sell everything (small to medium properties in the $300K - $7M) and do a 1031 exchange (so I don't get slammed with taxes) into a handful of large income producing properties...hire a management company and call it a day.