Any trade skills where you can demonstrate some competency (even if you learned informally)?

Going forward, if I invest another dollar in a flip, it will be working/partnering with one of these other local guys I've meet on BP, or somebody else that has demonstrated some skills and a track record.And anyway, none of that matters now. 

Sometimes I have to demonstrate this to my wife:  I put 400 dollars of weekly rent in her hand and ask her to put her wishes for 800 dollars of weekly rent in the other hand. 

There is no statutory holding period but what you demonstrate as your intent. 

This would be a way to demonstrate separation of my personal finance/expense from business, no?

After the lease expires in July AND the remaining tenant has successfully demonstrated his ability to pay rent on time now that he's solo would be a more appropriate time to have a discussion about removing the other party from the lease. 

They don't have any right now.It just goes to demonstrate the audacity of these guys...

A potential tenant that is willing to rent an apartment with marginal income is not demonstrating good fiscal responsibility. 

A lot of people do not consider the possibility that they aren't listening, dressing appropriately, being professional, or demonstrating good character.

@Elijah FastYour lender and possible your insurer will require a Phase 1 assessment .... this is predominately a visual inspection and paper exercise (costing anywhere from $750 - $2500) with the objective of discovering any potential contamination of the property (or demonstrating that there is none).An abandoned underground storage tank (UST) is something which should be disclosed by the vendor (it appears that it has been in this instance), but it is an example of the sorts of things a Phase 1 ESA looks to discover.Depending on the results of the Phase 1, you may very well be requested to continue with a Phase II ESA.Having a Phase 1 lets you know what you are walking into ... which is why lenders want them.