$90 per unit is extremely excessive and would nearly be the cost of your PM.

You lose your economies of scale.

It's the worst or best (depending on your strategy) boom and bust real estate market in the world.The explosion of the last bubble during the financial crisis was much worse than the US, with some properties losing three quarters of their values.

I wonder if going heavy into the "gaming" look may lose my credibility, however a nice touch of it will say that you're there for THEM and the industry.

That's a great way to lose money!

In the meantime, maybe to keep your current bookings in place and not lose that income, you could work with a mediator to explain that you will seek a full time renter after these current bookings have transpired. 

If the loan payment is less than the CF share your partner is getting, then you're losing money...for 30 years. 

So, if each of these $100k deals will average $750 per month and $9k per year of income forever, but let’s say 30 years, that’s $270k in 30 years (let’s assume problems arise and I lose 30% of this and it’s $200k of income - this doesn’t factor in raising rents at all though, or accessing built up equity over time).

But long term if they want to grow, beyond just wealthy/wealthier investors, they'd probably want to support more than 1/8 share ownership.With the current model and pricing, it doesn't make sense to me to make that kind of investment unless I had excess money to spend.

In addition, just remember that even though the investments you are looking at are super duper cheap, you can still lose money on them if you buy them wrong.