They understood that I was gun shy to enter into a contract because of what I had been experiencing prior.

Despite the fact he was in India, he had excellent speaking and reading comprehension skills, understood the problem, and claimed he was going to go get the document from the "Seller Review Team"

I did all the math by hand to make sure I understood it, then I tried plugging all the same data into the rental calculator on BiggerPockets (fortunately I got the same results in both cases).

I Couldn't find a solid answer I fully understood so was wondering if anyone here knew.

I'm not sure if I understood it fully though. 

Granted, I didn't do TONS of homework on it but from what I saw, the mechanics of how it worked for funding REIs appeared to be pretty much like I've always understood that it worked for anything else. 

@Steve Olafson   Good Friend of mine is the GM of the company that owns that race they make a ton of dough with these race's  if the BP folks understood how much money was in orginaizing these types of races you would see a fleeing from RE  LOL

Perhaps we should have understood this from our initial conversations with you.

@Jay Hinrichs, understood.  

Not sure if I understood you correctly but I'll give it a shot.Since your rent is low, stay at your current place, and buy the under marketed house to rent out to make cash flow(buy and hold).