If his credit capacity is sufficient, and his experience sufficient, he may be able to obtain a loan from institutional sources to compliment whatever capital he’s personally able and willing to contribute.  

You can setup some different requirements for tenants coming to rent from you (i.e. 700 credit score).

I was ~ $12k all in with furniture, security deposit, first month rent and maxing out my personal credit cards to get it ready with photos.That $12k provided me with an airbnb profiting me $1.4k/mo in profit.

I am thinking10k credit should work out, right.

and your accountant reconciles that with the primary residence exemption.Since you took $500K of profit out you now no longer have to buy 2.3. 

Many of the people that are signing off on the loans have a much weaker grasp of credit than they realize.

If all I did was sell and put the money in a high yield savings account, I could make nearly that much with no effort. 

I keep hearing about 1031 exchanges, but I'm finding that flips typically can't qualify because I need to hold the property as an investment for two years and then my profits from selling need to be held in a 3rd party account until the purchase of a new like kind property.

He'd make all his payments into an escrow account and I'd only get the money when I deliver the condo to him.

I would be curious to see over the past few years how many guests are still "crushing it" because we are seeing a lot of investors who started post 2018 needing rescue funding for deals which I can attest too was strictly lack of experience in understanding basic accounting, financing and real estate management.