So we were jointly involved in the selection of the tenants, I was not hiring him to exclusively do so nor was there any such wording in his services to me.

This tenant could be expensive if u end up having to evict them.

I think the joint ventures and individual mentoring is the best way to go unless you just want to shill a guru workshop and travel.

Do u have experience in rehabbing or in construction?

I'm not sure if a joint venture would work as there are no local investors in my small rural community, so I just put it out there to see if anyone would reach out to talk to me about it.

Best commercial retail training in the country is held by Cherif Medawar - he is a real estate hedge fund manager and owns a lot of retail and mixed use He has a training and Seminar company and even offers joint venture deals Go to his website www.cherifmedawar.com or enter his name on Youtube he has tons of videos and success stories I took several of his trainings through the years and in my opinion he is by far much better than the other so called gurus!

That's the "if you've lived in it for two of the last five years you can exclude $250K (single) or $500K (married filing joint) from capital gains tax" rule. 

My husband and I (together) jointly own our personal home in CA (we have a mortgage on it).My husband alone owns 1 vacation property in ME, 3 single family rentals in CA with mortgages, and 6 single-family rentals in IN.My IRA owns 2 single family rental properties in IN and 1 single-family rental property in OH.None of these properties are currently in a trust or LLC, they are just in our names and the name of my IRA.So far, I've talked to Geico and Foremost since we have dwelling insurance with them. 

find a broker that only charge u monthly fee.  

Maybe we could discuss doing a couple of joint ventures.