Now that you have one under your belt it will probably be a little easier to get lending from other place with better terms?  

Now it will be a matter of actually pulling the trigger and buying a home.It starts with the learning that you appear to have done quite a bit for.

Unfortunately it looks like someone wet mopped the floor and the edges of the laminate appear to have swelled slightly.

While I know as dad's it is our prerogative to fix things for our kids and make everything easier, I think that she should feel the weight of $100K of debt as much as possible. 

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There will definitely be new laws, but so far it looks like they're going to make it slightly easier in areas where it is not currently (rezoning as mentioned), they may even promote the process in some way, and there may actually be a housing regulatory overhaul in general that will affect all rentals (long and short-term (though that is quite a ways off)).As with long-term rentals, there are plenty of "slumlords" on the Airbnb side.

The people who live there however, did not appear to notice. 

You'll start to learn the shorthand of ARV, CoC, ROI, cap-rate, etc. pretty quickly.I think most of the language around "where to buy" is a lot easier to understand:  job growth, population growth, average household income, unemployment, school district quality, crime heatmaps, blah...blah...blah...  

However, both me and my contractor looking at it, It appears the fire starting from outside, and came up against the house, rather, than the electrical, which would start inside.

And go based upon what it returns - But at first glance it appears to be a FREE House for you in 10 years that also puts money into your pocket each month!