@Ethan Castleberry fantastic! 

I know stability is fantastic, but I certainly don't want a bad situation that someone has just dealt with or someone who won't accept any rent increases.

Adding stairs is something we’d like to do regardless because the laundry hook up is in the basement and we don’t want to have to run outside during winter with clothes to do our laundry!

The thing is: he has so many other fantastic qualities... but it's a bummer because the intoxicants really do inhibit his potential.

If anyone has any recommendations that would be fantastic! 

I don't write much on here, but Bigger Pockets has been a fantastic wealth of information for me.

@Stacey Paulin that's fantastic!

He believes in me and is a fantastic father, and would only ask for his money back within the next 10 years, but if it is profitable ill give him 5-8%.Then after this is all said and done, I'm sunk in almost 70K and not sure if I'll be able to turn a profit.My two exit strategies are as follows:Keep it and continue to rent to friends of mine (college students) for a few years, then sell it.

My brother in law is interested in doing some JVS with us so that is fantastic from a capital point of view.One delimma we are facing is having no credit rating yet (slowly working on it but seems to take ages)Anyway that is a little about myself, look forward to meeting many like minded people and learning a lot, hopefully not the hard way! 

There are tons of fantastic resources available on the site.