That being said I wanted to remain truly passive and didnt want to learn a lot about it but just wanted real estate exposure to balance my portfolio I think the funds offerings from RealtyMogul and Fundraise make sense, they seem to be relatively balanced and set up to generate income regularly. 

I firmly believe the best start to financial security is to own the home you live in. 

You may also consider working a "regular" job while learning and saving.  

As is regularly discussed on the boards, 80/20 comes into play.  

My other concern is that I don’t like tying up my money until almost age 60 & given the governments finances & what’s happening & about to happen to social security I don’t trust the Fed’s to even keep the Roth IRA benefits in tact to even the early adopters & others after it was promised too.

Also, what does the contract say about the transfer of security deposits? 

Luckily the flooring was pretty level and secure and this did not pose as a problem.We moved around the closets in the extended room so we could completely close off the passthrough.

The thing is wasps are quite common in Denver and when leasing the property I specifically elected not to pay for any sort of regular Pest control for insects and bugs, such as Orkin, etc. 

Our realtor estimated that after the work it should be appraised for around $190k, in which case we plan on refinancing so that we can put the money from the heloc into our regular monthly mortgage and free up her heloc since she does real estate investing as well.Now the house is divided into two sections.

It should not be a problem to sell except that you might have to bring money to closing to cover the costs of sale of about 6% or about $6,000 for each $100,000 plus regular escrow and title costs.