@Kyle Knudsen  I agree with Denver, with a 1031 you must move all the proceeds to a new "like kind" property. 

Please kindly help to handle this the best way. 

As tenants, I'm wondering what kind of offer we could present to our landlord to buy the house we are renting.

This kind of thing happens and now would be a good time to negotiate and add to your agreement how it will be handled in future.

Each property qualifies on its own economic merits (i.e. rental income covering PITI payments)This is one of the main advantages for DSCR financing, i.e. the ability to scale without any kind of DTI limit imposed by conventional financing.

And, frankly, all these cases are kind of fun to read.

That is the kind of wrap note that would be a miss in my book.

My personal thoughts are to search for "deal analysis" kinds of videos on youtube.

Frankly I would be less excited at spending any kind of money on a place that I don't own.

What kind of properties interest you the most?