If I were in your place, I would stay with my parents or a roommate where I am paying little to no rent.

One is the breadwinner but has terrible credit due to poor entrepreneurship decisions when younger, the other is a stay at home parent with no income but good credit (mid-600s).How would you evaluate this?

(likely never as I love what I do)Already being a business owner, I realized that generating wealth through RE is a slow and steady process, so what we decided to do to ramp up savings a bit to help aquire the next property is we moved in with my wife's parents and rented our Bay Area home.

I grew up right near Lowell and my parents and younger brother still live there so I am generally familiar with the market (but definitely not an expert). 

If corporate guarantee is it the parent company, subsidiary, or a single location entity LLC the tenant created that they can bankrupt and easily walk away from without affecting other stores they own or their personal assets.

I think you have a great strategy and mindset.

Getting rid of the "compassion" mindset is difficult but necessary.

Unfortunately my parents divorced when I was young and work restricted time with my dad to every other weekend only.

I'm already planning my next steps after this property closes.I decided to invest in real estate not only because I want the financial freedom and flexibility out of 9-5, but I want to give back to my parents who have blessed me with so many amazing opportunities growing up.

I want the freedom to start my family and be around in my kid’s life without having to work so hard like my parents did.