Together, we negotiated favorable terms with the seller, ensuring we acquired the property at a great price.

You have other net rental income (profit) in other activities / rentals (cannot be self-rentals typically) that you can offset, and / or3.

I was thinking a percentage split or different take o on a short term  loan with a buy out at so many months.

Together, we negotiated favorable terms with the seller, ensuring a quick and efficient transaction.

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fix-it-all (joint compound with some additives) is not suitable for exterior at allYes it will wick in water as the paint deteriorates, and cause more rot, and keeping a good coat of paint on it won't be enough long-term in many/most climates.bondo (polyester auto body resin) is a cheap-ish "alternative", although harder to get detail work just right and not really all that suitable anyway (maybe ok with a good epoxy / primer, perhaps?).

I'd see if you got a warranty. in all of our new builds we actually have the deal underwritten by an external builders risk policy by an insurance company as a smaller builder it hedges our risk and helps the customers be very happy. it's typically 0.5% of the purchase price.

My question is how do I figure how much to offer him in payments for the time period and would I just offer the balloon at the end of the term?

Your tenant sounds like a good tenant otherwise, but you should be sure that your jurisdictional rules changing from a term to M2M do not change in a way you are not prepared to handle.

Ask yourself "who" instead of "how"  Instead of how do you get these connections, think is terms of Who can you work with that have the connections in place already.