Gayatri, what specific contract form (form number/name, produced by who) are you using?

If you did use equity partners, those returns would be incredible for the investor!

So we might be able to purchase a property that produces a 10% cap rate but is actually valued by the area, property type etc at an 8% cap.

I just tried Realtor.com again.I gave up.First, it's incredibly slow.

There are many ways to evaluate income producing property.

As Frank mentioned about, most of the sales are sold 'subject to seller confirmation' which means that if it's an incredible deal for you as the buyer the bank is likely to reject it.

Utilizing money stored in the walls of your home via a HELOC to buy liabilities would be careless and put the homeowner at risk of becoming "upside down"Purchasing cash producing assets such as rental properties (doing it the right way of course), is a whole different ball game and I would encourage anyone to do it.

Good debt - Buy income producing property at today's low fixed rates, then let your tenants pay off your mortgages with the devalued dollars of the future....Yeah, I'm being basically doom and gloom but with some basic financial education and keeping your eyes and mind open there is still much success to be made no matter what happens to the U.S. of A and its economy.

The cap rate is what the property produces as a return.

I'm assuming you're going to use the cash to buy another income producing property.