After all, real estate investing is not a single person's game, it's a team effort, and I like working with other people.

Hey @Nick B. its a numbers game.

How you get rid of ones playing games saying they will close is to make them put up thousands and thousands of non-refundable EM.

I have spent the last 1-2 months researching, learning, and developing my real estate game plan that will help me to build long-term wealth.

Boston has some a TON of money to be made, but in my opinion it is a high stakes game that requires huge money to start.

I am game

I am willing to work for free to learn the ropes of the real estate game.

You don't need to have money in the game necessarily, if it he has plenty of capital and only suffering opportunity cost by carrying the note -- you're also suffering an opportunity cost via your time spend.So you'll end up putting a lot more time into this than he will.

I was really worried all day long that I was going to be out of the game after getting the "get lost" from the bank.

We are a hard money lender and we require our clients to have 20% (plus closing cost) and most HML's I know require the client to have some "skin in the game".