It's beneficial to us, the investor and the tenant looking for an affordable rental.

Just my stocks and mutual funds.

They probably will want to know what can go wrong and what you are going to do so that it doesn't.A 1-3 page executive summary highlighting the key elements of yourself and your deal or deals may be beneficial.

Needless to say, I'm glad that after a lot of searching on the web for good real estate networking sites I'm very happy to have found biggerpockets.com, it will hopefully connect me with many like-minded individuals and investors that don't want to retire on just their 401K and mutual fund investments alone and that enjoy creating "win-win" deals for all parties involved.I'm looking forward to talk to you all!

I've had several very beneficial partnerships with licensed individuals.

One attorney I talked to said Dodd-Frank applies to Rent to own, Lease Options, Lease purchase, and Selling the beneficial interest of a trust - anything that is not strictly a rental will require vetting financial qualifications using a mortgage broker including the 43% debt to income ratio.

Retiring with $1M in mutual funds or $8k a month in passive income.

Yes, the CCIM would be beneficial, yes working for someone in the businees would be helpful.

He's very open to a Lease Purchase, but needs to know the property will be maintained well & got a little skittish hearing I was an investor who may possibly sublet.I'm considering this:Let owner know I'd guarantee his 1850/month, with a mutually benficial purchase price after 3 or 4 years of me leasing, & tell him right away I'd market for a sublet leaser, on 1 year terms, and collect a 5% Option Payment upon signing, of which I'd split with the owner, with a purchase price for the tenant about 20-30K above market value.

I talked to both Modern American (mentioned above) and the National Real Estate Insurance Group (http://www.nreinsurance.com/ - one of their owners posts regularly on BP) for a commercial policy for 5 of my properties in the midwest.I ended up going with Safeco (owned by Liberty Mutual).