A main target of these thieves/squatters are houses being listed and sitting vacant.

I would sit down with your CPA and an attorney that regularly works with investors to get a solid path going forward for you to scale. 

This essentially means that, during renovations, he has the opportunity to bring himself all the way up to 50/50 partners with me, or close to it.What does not sit right is that I have created this whole opportunity and would like to feel compensated by retaining significant value in the project rather than opening the doors for losing 50% of my investment when I am certainly able to do it on my own.

Those loans are expense and I do not recall them going below 7%.

Move in ready $450k+ at this price you’ll find new construction and renovated duplexes those tend to sell quickly when the numbers makes sense and the ones sitting on the market the rent does not cover a big % of the mortgage.2.

So, there are cases here where ADUs are sitting their empty when the elderly parent passed away and can not be occupied by a non-relative.

Innago, Rentredi are names that come up a bunch.a slightly different approach is to use something like hemlane that is a solution that sort of sits between self-management and property management. you could check that out.this site has a bunch of other resources you could look into: https://everyreitool.com/categ...

Your inability to listen, research, evaluate and place facts in context is why you are sitting alone in rural Pennsylvania. 

For now I'm just sitting tight on the cash and working forward toward a deal that makes sense. 

Recall that investing in real estate is a marathon, not a sprint.