Dodd-Frank, I don't believe uses the words "lease-option financing" what you will find is that the DF encompasses the SAFE Act and establishes authority over any consumer RE transaction that is designed, intended to or facilitates the transfer of title in a 1-4 family dwelling by doing so.You will be very busy looking up the statutes that have been modified, adopted or the recension of regulations, going back to 1938 that I noticed.Much of this stuff lies in definitions, you can't just read the word "make" or "makes" or "maker" of a financial obligation and assume it means the same thing as a car maker or one who makes cookies, the English word has different applications.

I currently work in corporate America and will be self managing my properties.Strategy: Buy and hold.Goal: To make real estate my sole source of income in 10 years. 

Be a solution maker.

Many of those classes have been provided for no cost by non-profits funded by HUD, more people getting a slice of the pie is not a good thing.....but that's where those with a vested interest in some aspect get involved with law makers to pad their own pockets.I too had input to the SAFE Act initially at the federal and state level and the original exemptions seemed adequate.Loans to the public should have no bearing on what the lender's cost of money is, if they can't afford to be in the business they need to do something else.

I'm still the butcher, the baker & candle stick maker :D

The big decision-maker will be if you can find connections in the community to work with.

The difference maker is time to getting it rent-ready and listed.

I turn my iphone to vibrate before bed and leave it in a different room.

There is a new documentary (From the maker of "Enron - The smartest man in the room" ) called "Money Driven Medicine" that documents the exact issue.For a little taste go to ABC Nightline site http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/and click on "Health Care Sound and Fury"

I know it has been 3 years or so, but I want to ask why the maker did not use =roundup(CELL/PackageQty,0) .. this will go like (29 smoke detectors / 10 per package) .. 2.9 packages, the "0" will round it up to 3 packages.