It is a great place to start or enhance your real estate investing .BP is a great resource.

After accounting for these items, I evaluate whether that provides sufficient coverage for P&I and some form of cash flow (even if modest), which I would use to further enhance reserves or make additional principal payments, etc.  

When Moody’s Investor Service warned that lending underwriting standards had slipped to the point that they would begin raising subordination levels on loans it deemed in need of credit enhancement you could see the writing on the wall.

My (limited) understanding of that law is that (1) it was written to specifically enhance the lenders' ability to enforce DOS and (2) the exemption to which you refer is for a living trust in which the original borrower is a beneficiary.

It is a great place to share and enhance your REI knowledge.

Would that greatly enhance my ability/knowledge/skillset in order to prosper in the realm of real estate?

As a signatory (colloquially: co-signor) a parent is a tenant, with all the attributable rights: access, requests for repairs/enhancement/etc; the right to pick-up the phone and consume your time.  

My goals are hopefully pretty modest.....maybe ultimately 2 deals per year, as I work full time.I admit, that my knowledge is strongly focused on the nuts-and-bolts of the business.....design/construction/skilled trades.....and so I'm on here, trying to enhance my ability to bird dog deals as well as finance them.I've done a little research, and there's a fella buying distressed properties here and there in town, at roughly half of county tax assessment value (which seems to be roughly 80% of actual market value), then mortgaging the very same day at about assessment value.....then rehabbing and reselling within a few months.

Here's what I'm thinking about doing to make it more manageable and enhance revenues. 

Also nowadays with enhanced report feature they all look the same, which is nice and removes and preference for visual bias.