Essentially at this point all my financial needs will be met and I not longer HAVE to work those 10+ hour days, nights, weekends, and holidays just to survive - so I feel tempted to take an extended vacation and just kind reflect on my accomplishments so far, take some time to enjoy life a bit, maybe find some new hobbies (which would undoubtedly cut into my profits a bit). 

@Don Konipol  when i cut my teeth in Notes  that was the focus of our business  owner occ 80 10 and 10k seconds.. low balance 10 to 50k 5 points 15% seconds in the SF Bay Area. .

What's the difference between a straight lease option (where I'm the lessee) vs. the sandwich lease option?

Truly, an 85,000 house and you already have 20k in it... paying that off and totally having straight cash flow can be nice.

It might make more sense to buy a unit as a straight investment vs. getting a home and partially rent it out while you live there.

I had one for a while....it does very little if anything for an investor - except of course, providing you with some knowledge - which you can get anyway.People seem to think that it gives you an advantage by cutting out the buyer's agent, and reducing the price by that 2.5%, but this is not always the case.If you do some searches on the forum you will find many posts on this....

Offer a straight-across trade for the desired property if you think it's all that.

Didn’t read all 49 pages but some questions/recommendations - don’t mention radon unless your state requires it, it just confuses people - add an early lease termination fee, makes the process very cut and dry if a tenant wants to break a lease early.

Needed little work and tenants were decent. straight forward purchase What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Additionally, they cut a small hole in the fence so SDG&E (the utility company here) can read the meter from the empty lot.