Do you really think you can wrestle some hardened, muscle macho thug to the floor?

Financials aside, if my husband & I vehemently disagree and one has to muscle the other along, it ends up being a bad financial decision in the end.

I might seriously consider that latter strategy more if I actually had the financial muscle to flex. 

If you are operating the business yourself, don't waste time on setting up a company until you've proven it is a viable business.

I was sure to dig deeper and ask how this would apply to multi-families etc etc, however, he proceeded to tell me if the borrower knew this was his/her intent from the onset that this be disclosed and therefore down payments would need to be of at least 15% because this would be deemed as an "investment". 

I have tracked my expenses since the onset.

A good agent should be presenting properties that fit the investment parameters we likely discussed at the onset of our relationship, and then try to tell me why it would work for me (ARVs, comps, rent demand, neighborhood characteristics, etc.).

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Anonymity no longer becomes an option in the future if not set up at the very onset.

Theres a lot of debt to go around in my house, as my younger brother (19) has a combination of a defect in his aorta valve as well as the disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (probably spelled that wrong, its the same disease that most of the young highschool atheletes died of on the court/field from being undiagnosed, thankfully his aorta defect allowed for frequent testings and caught it ahead of time) and a mytochondrial defficiency in his skeletal muscles.