The discolored portion is in a semicircle and is maybe an inch to two inches wide is the countertop usable?

You still own the realestate(or a portion) so it carries all the same benefits you’re looking for.

Talk to your boss....he likely breaks it out this way to avoid His portion on the $3500 for as/med.  

For me if it is in a decent area I would live there and make it a single family  converting some portion to a nanny/in law suite looking towards selling.

Usually, buyers will ask the seller to pay a portion of the closing costs. 

While I am a total rookie and have only had two rental properties, I put a Section 8 tenant in each.In both cases, the government's portion has covered our PITI.

Hello,Our property managment company states they are advised by Texas Association of Realtor (TAR), before seeing a copy of our rental/tenant screening report, vital information must be blacked out (i.e., DOB, Driver's License, SS#).  

Now my current household income has nearly quadrupled, and while the monstrosity that is the student loan balance eats up a significant portion of monthly earnings I am nearly at the point where each (three in total) written-off account shall be PAID IN FULL (!!!

They still required her to be a signatory to the mortgage and to be on title ... and would not allow my portion to be held in my company (their policy did not permit companies and individuals to jointly own property).On recent visit to that same lender - with another partner - I was told having me on the deal would put things under far more scrutiny and greatly slow-down the process ... despite the partner having more than sufficient capacity to carry the mortgage on his own.I think if you find the right lenders and set things up in advance (almost like being pre-approved), @Julie Broad's approach still has legs, but my recent experience (this past year) is that it's becoming more difficult.

The plan now is to use a solid portion of the fee to really get a decent direct mail campaign set up and apply the marketing concepts I learned over the past year.