I am looking purely for retirement income, so I don't ever see a need to sell.

If you get one "forever home" to satisfy the emotional need now it gives you 30 years (thinking: life of a low interest rate fixed mortgage) to vet subsequent properties purely on ROI.

Regarding the forms, creative is talked all over the place, not just in the creative forum.The first thing you should do is findand are a RMLO to do seller financed deals for the buyer that's owner-occupied due to Dodd Frank and the ability to repay rule.The second thing you should do is to find a seasoned contract attorney that works with commercial and residential, but understands notes, contract for deed, land contracts, installment sales contracts, subject to existing financing, land trusts, property trusts, Master leases, master lease options lease with option, lease purchase,pure options, wraparound mortgages, joint venture agreements, private lender agreements, and more.Third, I would consider getting a real estate license if you're not licensed which allows you to network with other agents and solve problems especially with low equity dealsSearch Amazon for "Finance any property anytime"by James Misko, Who was a broker for 40 years, and has some great examples of creative financing, over 45 cases

@Dale Hensley It seems like you are managing yourself while I would assume on a pure numbers basis most properties that would be in any hard data analysis are managed by property managers and/or REITs.

Julie Marquez sorry to poke my nose into your question, but as for drywall, honestly you might run into a bit of trouble with a dry waller not wanting to mud the walls/ceiling for as cheap as you'd like purely based off the reason that they didn't install it, but there definitely is the exception.

Pick whatever colors you like, but I'm a fan of 7012 Creamy for walls, and 7005 Pure White for trim and ceilings.

They are hard to cash flow as a house hack or pure investment, because you're spreading the expenses across only 2 units.Don't settle on a crappy neighborhood just because the price looks good.

New ways to quantify what was once considered purely qualitative data now means new ways to analyze what data washes up onto our hard drives and into our cloud storage centers.

Now looking to get a second house purely for airbnb as way more profitable.

This is my mistake, pure and simple.