Best way to understand this is research appraisal standards and means. 

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.

Speak with lenders early to understand your borrowing power, and explore multifamily properties to maximize your house-hacking potential.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.DM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

Understand your short term and long term goals.

If Im understanding correctly, youre buying the home from your mom who will take a first position lien on the property in exchange for carrying the $100k of the purchase price on a private note.

Once you know who in your circle has $ to invest, you then need to understand their risk to reward level so you know what deals fit their bucket.

It's important to follow your state’s tenant/landlord laws and maintain a record of any essential notices given.

Hi Melissa - Yes, I saw these and I’m leaning towards https://learntitlesearching.comthe content creator is on YouTube there’s  ‘about’ page contact info, phone, email etc.The other class might be fine~ but site is missing ‘about’ info, no contact no name, no phone no number no email- not clear who they are.ALTA is specialized/ costly (I’m requesting  some  cost covered by a job training program) so far I took a few quick low cost basic classes here: Understanding title reports , Basics of Title reports and escrow from online edhttps://www.onlineed.com/catalog?

In this option your agent would either get paid from you directly in your closing costs OR from the seller via seller concessions.like Russell said, if you are comfortable with the transaction and understand what you are signing and you don't need things explained and you have connections with inspections and title companies then go for it.