I keep seeing posts about HB 24-1098 which severely restricts a landlords ability to evict non paying tenants or restricting folks on rental assistance from the government.  

As for renting, going cash flow negative isn't great, and your home isn't likely to appreciate as fast as it would if it was a single family home, so holding with hopes of increasing appreciation may be a verrrry slow play, but if you can afford to hold, having a tenant pay down your mortgage is an additional great benefit to real estate investing. 

When he went to draft up the contract he made it a Confessions of Judgement contravr in which I waive all my rights and if any of my "associates or friends" talked about him I'd have to pay half a million per offense, and he could easily claim a violation happened that never did to collect half a million dollars and I wouldn't be able to do anything about it.He consistently threatened me with legal action into trying to get me to accept that crazy contract.

A simple Bi-Weekly with added payments can pay off a mortgage in 10-12 years.This strategy allows you to pay more at your own pace having a failsafe unlike a 15 year where you are obligated to pay more every month.

On my existing units most prefer to pay cash.

Either way...costs have SKYROCKETED in the building material space...people who are building at such a low fee are likely their own GC and not paying themselves properly@Alex L. - What prompted the purchase of the lot? 

I told her I cannot afford that, which I assumed correctly that the so-called free blueprint is useless without paying $2,000 for the training program.

That way you can ask for 4-5% Seller credits to pay for the closing costs.

The Seller is interested in leaving up to $0.5m as a preferred equity/debt as long as she doesn't have to pay tax immediately on the $0.5m that she doesn't receive on closing. 

I currently am franchising stores for a few years now and am seeing the leases we sign and square footage we pay for.