It's good to help people if you can, but don't put yourself in a position where your're forced to rely on them.

Your attorney will do the first two parts for you and you can expect to spend 20-50k of your own money just to be in the position to start raising money.

I've invested in 2nd position NPNs in the past but I'm making the transition to invest in and own physical property.

You don't realize in now, but you are in the best position possible...and some day, if you don't give up, you will remember this day and say....."??????".....

Our goal is to obviously have good positive cash flow, to allow us to re-invest in more property for a "snowball" effect.

I disagree with him as paying on time does effect your score positively BUT does paying it off in FULL every month make it any better?

I have an MLS listing active from my agent to see what’s out there as well.Needless to say, I’ve been a long-time lurker and I’m ready to change that, jump in head first and get into the hardest part, taking action!

Feel free to ask questions for more details but I'll try to briefly lay it out.My 3 year goal it to have $5000/ mo positive flow so my husband no longer has to work his 'day job'.

You may want to consider having you added in a junior lien position with a set dollar amount that you both can agree on.  

The seller breached the contract and you have a cause of action against him.