Can anyone give me any tips with regards to dealing with owners who are going to finance a deal?

Our group can help in structuring the deal. 

How do you find your deals?

He is putting in 15% of equity as his family office as a TIC, tenant in common to the deal via a 1031 exchange, so that aligns him with LPs better than 99% of deals out there, also GP fees are fair to reasonable, 8% pref, then 80/20 and then for >14% IRR, they split 70/30, so better than 95% of last 100 deals I have seen.

An investor friendly agent can do all sorts of helpful things, like setting you up with a search for properties or connecting you with folks who have recently done deals like the ones you want to do. 6) Consider analyzing a deal or two in your local market, just for practice, with a free use of our Rental Property Calculator (or other calculators).

A partner just found a way for more off market deals involving loans.

Hey Lara, I do deals all over Florida. 

When that 3 year balloon is up and you have to go to the bank, at that point it's a refinance, not a purchase, so if there's equity in the deal, no down payment will be needed... because it's a refinance.You are right, there's some risk.

An investor friendly agent can do all sorts of helpful things, like setting you up with a search for properties or connecting you with folks who have recently done deals like the ones you want to do. 6) Consider analyzing a deal or two in your local market, just for practice, with a free use of our Rental Property Calculator (or other calculators).

Don't wait for the perfect deal to come up, the most important thing is to get started.