I use my car for a lot of personal and a lot of business use as well - however, I would not be willing to gamble that I use it more than 50% for business - we do ALOT of road trips year round.2.

I would also like to mention, that even if I am not able to take advantage of this opportunity, I am willing to work with whomever is chosen, if they are willing to be a mentor/adviser on this project.  

We have chosen to focus more on SFR (75% of our portfolio and up to 4 family MF). 

The buyer's chosen title agent must be indicated on the purchase contract when signed. 

This may sound weird but I am doing a research paper on my chosen career field, Real Estate Investing.

In fact you will be in a position where you will need to keep feeding the beast from a thousand miles away to not lose your total stake.Or everything could work out perfectly but do you really want to gamble on that?

I've seen writing contests for properties but never a raffle which would (in NYS) be considered gambling (games of chance) and also involving US Postal service which gosh they have rules about all sorts of stuff you can/can't do via mail. 

Legally, I doubt you could make a case for not renting to him or her on the basis of their chosen profession.

Having an ARM, you might be taking a bit of a gamble and hoping that the Fed will not increase rates.

I've chosen to get a license.