The entire conversation was pretty much him pushing his weight around and not really being understanding or interested with my thoughts and concerns at all.

NOTHING a family law judge says has ANY weight on a contract.

The options are A) treat the contribution as a loan, with 8% interest, or B) Profit sharing of a certain percent, or C) We partner up with weighted shares... like 20/80 with the understanding that he will provide ongoing maintenance. 

I just paid about $2k to do a whole house but that included painting the walls a lighter color and repairing all of the small cracks and holes from the previous owner hanging pictures and shelves all over the walls. 

The learning experience you will get being a landlord will be worth it's weight in gold for your next property, and the next, etc. 

The CMA was just low - while no weight at all was given to the rental income. 

These lenders are hard to find but worth their weight in gold. 

,Zillow is typically wrong, it is a tool that doesn't take in to account many of the variables, I would put little weight into it. 

That seems to carry more weight when the tenant agrees in court and the judge writes it on the judgment.Good luck!

Then you'd likely put more weight on the comps from the 80's then the other two in the late 90's.