I would like to push it out to 45-90 days.

If it’s not then it should be a no brainer to get your $ back @Chris Seveney  I know there were liens because I saw them on Propstream and when I pushed the wholesaler on the issue he confessed (two days before the closing date) that there were a Few liens on the property.     

If you didn’t hit some of your goals, analyze what caused you to not achieve them to ensure you don’t make the same mistakes again the following year.

No one is asking you to follow my advice.

My opinion is follow DSCR standards.

At the bare minimum, you should do the following to make your bookkeeping easier:Dedicate one checking account and credit card exclusively to real estate.

If they were married, I'd think it would be more of a conversation about their future, but I can understand that if you are only with someone for 1-2 years they might not be willing to pack everything up and follow you on your real estate journey right away.Any thoughts or ideas to help us sort through the weeds on how to go about finding a house hack with these constraints? 

And at that point its not easy to un-invest - takes longer than to quit a job for sure.I think most of us have followed their passion.

A follow up question I now have would be do you think its smarter to completely pay off the first property before buying a new property or to keep going out and buying new properties once i have enough saved up for the down payment along with extra fees?

Tilden Moschetti is a good follow, he is a syndication attorney who does syndications hiimself.