Our goals are simple - through building a portfolio of passive income producing real estate investments, we would like to achieve financial freedom.While financial freedom means different things to everyone, our financial freedom entails early retirement, traveling, and the biggest and most important piece is our ability to attend and enjoy our children each and every day of their lives.

If you go into a deal with a partner using leverage at 7% I/Y, would the returns still be meaningful enough for you to proceed forward considering the additional headache incurred with partnerships and all they entail?

Your influence is asserted mostly when you tell the agent what it's worth.

I recommend reading a couple books that you can get an understanding of what management entails and start developing a plan for how you will deal with problems like late rent, unauthorized tenants or animals, lease violations, early terminations, etc.Check out "Managing Rental Properties" by Brandon Turner or my personal favorite, "Every Landlord's Legal Guide" by NOLO.

If it does pass, you will have to a pay attention to what it would entail but it will definitely be talked about a lot in the news, etc. so I am sure you'll get info then.

Rates for properties held in LLCs that are not primary residences, always entail higher rates.

I'll send you a PM with a few questions about the section 8 program so that I can be more educated on what it entails.

This entails, Great Curb Appeal, and during the Holidays, Advertise Holiday Specials.  

The big question here is what claim could your husband's ex plausibly assert against your separate assets (assuming they truly are separate and no fraudulent conveyances have been made to make them so) unless local law? 

While I respect the fact that perhaps you don't feel that turnkey is the investment niche for you, I'd like to take this opportunity to set the record straight on a couple of the assertions you made in your post regarding the numbers we run at Spartan Invest.1.