It's also hard to demand these type of "aggressive" terms before demonstrating value or distinguishing your services from the other agents in the market.

You have to demonstrate you're willing to do some of the right things on your side.  

This will demonstrate to lenders that you have a clear plan and an understanding of the market.2.

High paying roles in real estate, that you can probably access with a lot of networking since you have a demonstrated quantitative ability.

I so want to do this but my wife is too afraid of leveraging our own house until it can be demonstrated that our REI strategy isn't going to get our house taken away.

So it was really the best of both worlds, I have my e-mail offering to re-clean oven, demonstrating how reasonable I am, yet did not have to actually do anything.Another update, one of my angel tenants that helps keep the garbage area organized, let me know that the (stove) tenants are making a mess and dumping garbage all over the place. 

The "great recession" anecdotes are over-played and demonstrate calcification of fear that has poisoned your ability to correctly assess and asset.Your definition of risk is different, but you add risk (and substantial lost opportunity) by burying all of that cash into the ground.Leverage is the great equalizer, and perhaps that is part of the reason the Thurstons and Loveys are so put off by our advocacy of it. 

If the buyer clearly was able to demonstrate they were serious, by doing something like that it would make a difference.  

You might also consider drafting a letter of intent (LOI) that outlines your offer and demonstrates your serious commitment to the property at the $500K price point.

It does a good job demonstrating the challenges of answering peoples' questions about how a syndication will affect their income tax.I must add, that I like the tax benefits from layering syndications.