Real Estate Express, pre-license 63 hour course, chapter 5, pg 10: "Escrow Accounts Deposited"The area I can't understand is the bold and underlined.If there is more than one broker, then a broker licensee must be designated as the signatory.

Plus, you're telling the borrower in advance that you're OK with the loan (and no payments) until the property sells... setting an expectation that at the end of the 6 months, you'll roll the loan if the property didn't sell.5) Absolutely you should get a PG. 

(I'm obviously option to all options for investing.)For context, I currently own and rent rooms in my home in PG county off the border of DC so house hacking currently isn't a true option for me (took advantage of first-time home buying programs so I have to wait a couple of years). 

Personally I would like Pg 1 spots 1-4.

I plan am targeting 2-4 unit apartments in SE and NE but a single family home in Northern Virginia or PG County MD may be a good starting place for a house hack. 

(HUD guidelines, see pg. 11). 

I recommend looking at some duplexes in pg right now.

I highly recommend a personal guaranty, if he is the majority owner and a noncredit tenant, you need that PG if he walks.

Id probably be partial in your area to either Montgomery County or Anne Arundel county due to the lower real estate tax rates in those counties versus Howard and PG. 

Scott's "The Book on Flipping Houses" pg 71 where he writes (as part of large set of general guidelines only) that it is better to have an area where "the majority of houses are lived in by the owners as opposed to being rented out.