Fellow landlords,I'm looking for your real world experience and valuable input.My first financially significant problem has struck.

But there has to be some they are just not on BP  :)I wasn't aware just how limited the responses would be.  10 years is not a long time in the buy and hold world.

Thought this might be of interest to the BP world.  

The world kept spinning, I didn't lose my shirt, and I drove on home with the strange, anti-climactic feeling of 'did that really just happen?'

But in today's world, its simply not competitive.  

My aim is to be among the top guys in the world.

Rock on :) Welcome to the world of House Hacking! 

In the world of craigslist and outsourcable background/credit checks, they're not that hard to find or screen.  

Hello gang, I'm just starting out in the fascinated world of RE investment, I'm all for thinking outside the box so I have a question for you guys to see if this might work.

Dividing the profits two or three ways will provide enough reward for me as I will end up doing a little less work than if by myself (and them also) plus I get to see the world from a different set of eyes and I think that is a good thing.