When complaints were filed due to major issues raised, some states prosecuted the companies for depriving buyers of ownership rights and outright deeded the houses to buyers (regardless of breach of contract and default on loans), with huge restitutions to be paid to state and end buyers.

I spend majority of my time in central and North Jersey.  

Any major bank has this account.  

I was able to move out of my parents house in an expensive market by using the other unit rent to cover the majority of the expenses.

Yes, it needs to be your primary residence and you can only have one primary residence (where you live the majority of the time, get your mail, pay taxes, sleep at night, etc.).

I think its rare you can take a model you're doing in this are or product and just move it somewhere else or on to some other product.To me, If you have a niche that works and you're good at it and the numbers are strong,  I believe you should put everything you have into that business model and grow it and grow it fast while the getting is good. 

You don't provide enough data to know.Every product is only worth what you are willing to pay for it. 

Tell him you'll give him a call :) This is one of the reasons why we tell tenants they need to vacate the property for any major repairs.  

I imagine cost of labor might be a little bit cheaper in Idaho compared to Connecticut as we ended up paying 10k for gas furnace and 5k for AC with 10 yr warranty for Lennox product.  

I'm curious what the demand is for midterm rentals...outside of major metropolitan areas.