There will still be a lot of people that are resistant, but stroking a landlord's ego and asking for their backstory and what they recommend to enter into investments is a great way to meet people.

If you and your family are willing to house hack and use either an FHA 203k or homestyle renovation loan, the path of least resistance with the lowest risk, in my opinion.If you didn't want to house hack you could try a live-in-flip with those same loan programs! 

The 10 year is going to continue to create resistance in the mortgage/cre field.

. - provided you can resist the urge to spend it instead of using it as intended.Yes, you can add to the principal payment amount every month if your budget supports that.Here's the piece that folks tend to gloss over: This method of debt acceleration only works if you have money left over at the end of the month after all your debts and expenses are covered. 

Why the resistance to showing her you do own these properties? 

I wouldn't get my hopes up as he really has no obligation to, but if he sees a $5K item he can offer and forcing the legal aspect would cost $5K as well, he just might go with path of least resistance...The other aspect is you should 100% figure out exactly what the cost for you to take care of your items would be.

Also the fatal flaw with books is they're written at a point in time, which means they are not necessarily related to today.Still can learn a thing or two, but I would resist the urge to follow the book that hard. 

State not only allows but makes policies to force counties to comply but counties DO resist and purposely make the process very difficult.

Jason Stofer I understand that but I’m a big believer in path of least resistance.

The government resists things they can't control.