@Michael Ablan  You would call E.M.S. then pack all their stuff up and leave it in their vehicle after the ambulance and police are gone. 

I pulled a basement permit, but they snooped around and found "problems" with stuff I was doing upstairs that had nothing to do with the basement.

I was hoping to jump in by the end of September 2015, but the more I read, the more stuff I find to read and I'm not sure Sept 2015 is a realistic goal for me, since I have a full time job and other parts of life get in the way.

Think about all of the strip centers you drive by, the vacant parcels that could be for a new home(s) or the warehouses where you your stuff from Amazon sits before your order. $50,000 is plenty of money to start.

When you take a home at auction you do not automatically get their "stuff" too.

They like to do traditional stuff.

Are you looking for beach stuff?

D Class stuff and you'll run into lots of trouble and fall into what I call the "return trap". 

You have to know your stuff. 

She can charge 0% interest but would still be responsible for taxes based on the government AFR rate which is around 4-5%So at $400k she would be responsible for $16-20k in taxesYou can have a title company originate the note and mortgageWe do this stuff all day long as investors (not attorneys) so happy to help