Where I could not do that with a lease-option or contract for deed.The benefit of the LO or CFD is I could get a little higher monthly rent and a little more deposit.

You LO or broker should be able to answer those questions right away. 

Again, simply ask the LO if he has a fixed rate program which will likely carry a higher rate than what they just offered you.

your other option is to raise her rent but keep it under market and when you have this conversation with her, point out all the money she has saved over the years and will continue to save because she is such a great lo g term tenant so rather than gong to the full market rent, you will keep her discounted if she wants to stay.

seeking a accountability partner doing LP or LO.

If you need to actually buy the property (possibly rehab it) and sell it retail it seems thin since all the transactional, financing fee and holding costs will eat up a lot of that equity fast.The various L/O options could make it work.

Hey @Trent Aguon as @michael Corbonare stated, LO's are a great way to start, and you can actually combine LO's and the leads you get from wholesaling as well, but the main thing is to focus on 1-2 techniques.

This is very simple, so don't confuse it with a sandwich LO (SLO), where you stay in the deal.

If you are looking at LO's...I can easily help you with that, as can @Brian Gibbons as well as @Michael CarbonareI can tell you are already trying to make this more complicated than it is...You can get an LLC or just a DBA...but just do something...Land trusts are used to control a property.So let's focus on one thing right now....Do something...Get a dba...big deal...but then market to listed homeowners and scan Clist for houses that you can work with.Just focus on one thing for right now..lease options.I can assure you, it is a LOT easier to get an owner to sign a lease option than the sign their house over in to a land trust!!!!

Then I started managing myself and realized, that lo and behold, I no longer had such a huge turn-over as when I had a PM.Moved to Seattle in Aug '12 and couldn't stand the weather.