I do want to retire early enough to enjoy myself more, I have an okay work/life balance now but in say 5 years or so ideally I would like to quit my day job and have a few different sources of semi-passive income streams to enable me to spend more time doing what I like to do most (travel, spend more time with my wife and kids etc.).So in developing a plan, I was thinking today about my current goal of buying several SF and/or MF properties with reasonable CF over then next 5+ years to supplement my "early" retirement.  

Once again.... every situation is unique, and I'm not saying to be enablers of bad behavior.

How do I modify my lease option agreement with the seller to enable me to assign it to this tenant buyer and still collect my assignment fee?

You won't find much appreciation, but you will find cashflow that will enable you to pay off your expenses, pay the mortgage, and eventually end up with a free and clear house, even after paying for a property manager, of which there are many.

We're enabling these lazy scumbags by giving them everything - and that's a national tragedy!

May I ask what bank  your broker finally connected you with which enabled you to use your boarder income? 

Robert is clear about the necessary lead times, which people do not always follow, and which enables him to personally handle the funds on behalf of his clients: he does every transaction.When I spoke with my attorney about the fees I was being charged for his services, she was shocked.

Embed the project manager with your level of thinking so they know your investment parameters which will enable he or she to contribute to your property search, contractor selection and end product.

His resources enabled him to send for Peter and that meeting was historic in the foundation of the early church. 

This will enable you to monitor/ prevent temperature extremes in buildings especially if you don't make them pay for utilities. - I have other thoughts on this that I actually did a few day ago so if you want to check that out here is theLastly @Kurt G. in order to do the wifi as a service that you speak about you would pretty much just need to install a more robust network than Comcast, etc gives you and assign each apartment their own SSID.