Find out what is the norm in your state and do what the fashion in your area dictates.

IMHO he did not keep a professional manner and did not handle the issue in a customer friendly fashion......I am glad he refunded me at this point since I am not interested in rolling the dice on any more $1500+ programs but I was shocked to see that he did not care to better explain the reasoning behind the waiting time for setup VS the guarantee time limit ......or even try to level with me as a customer.

Clean plate ware, free of designs can add to an aesthetic appeal and add a tidiness to your modern kitchen.

I'm fairly confident that with modern upgrades the house will support that valuation and command high rents.

I get that these places have an old school style, but can't you recreate that with modern clean looking materials. 

Even so, in true Rich Dad fashion I'd like to ask 'How Can I?'

But you are just using estate planning and LLC's to work in the modern era to fight modern wealth destruction (law suits/judgments, healthcare expenses leading to long term care / incapacity, remarriage after death, death or remarriage of children.) 

My career goal is to one day design and build large, modern homes and I have access to the money required through investors, but having my dad on board is my number one priority.Build a successful real estate portfolio.

It's hard to do it publicly in the modern world. 

Good old fashioned face-to-face business will never go away.