Quote from @Rod Hanks: Party 1 seems like a slam dunk no brainer over Party 2. 

First, deep relationships with people so that you know them well, they know you well, and relationship continues for many years.  

So, after 30 minutes of going over the information of the case, the judge decided he should have a chance to defend himself, and I have to go to court again in 3 weeks. 

We all get hopped up over a deal.

Quote from @Iliana Herrman: Brandon wrote his book over ten years ago and the market was very different at that time.

He had gone over that by about 60 days.

When it dies I won't replace it with an ice maker but they were over the moon to get the rental and this is the second set of tenants that said we don't care about the ice maker.

One important detail is that my brother currently lives with us, and we are open to having him stay with us if we do make a purchase as a renter to help cover our mortgage.I see our main options as the following:1) Buying an SFDU to live in, and "house hack" with my brother continuing to live with us and pay rent2) House hacking with MFDU.

We are ready to continue investing and are interested in traditional financing but want to learn more about Subject To and private equity and other creative financing methods. 

I've seen too many investors find a good property, then hand it over to a terrible PM and the entire thing fails.