It's basically a legal 2-unit that can cashflow $900/month.

James and his people who manage the program are nice and give basic sales and negotiation advice but not much that moves the needle in any situation.

;-)I am starting to read books, audiobooks, and this site to builda basic understanding of RE investing in 3-6 months.

It will familiarize you with the basic terminology and benefits.

They had to refinance it to basically kind of save the house now that everything is kind of on track she wants to renovate the property.

Basically you can't have the yard be higher than 6 inches below the window sill (otherwise it would v difficult for people to exit out of this window in case of an emergency). 

In order to pitch for funding, we feel like we need to get a few basic ducks in a row.

The basic demo was complete and the property was ready for reassembly when we bought it, leaving fewer surprises.

It will familiarize you with the basic terminology and benefits.

I'm tempted to do what many have said which is to just use a debit card, but I get 2% back on a CC, which is not insignificant when managing dozens of vendors, and I really hate to change a process that's working because the software I chose is lacking a basic feature.