I think you should work in the franchise like your father wants.Learn the business, what if you worked as many hours as you can, work 80 hours a week or even work 100 hours a week (child labor laws might limit this ????)

I was familiar with the area in the sense that I had visited as a child, and have been visiting the Smokies (albeit mainly the NC side) for most of my life.  

The issue with RUBS is that it is fluid and it hinges on the # of occupants and this poses issues: 1) A child uses less than an adult; 2) a worker from home uses more than one that drives to work; 3) A couple may have a child during tenancy which they fail to divulge; 4) friends and family may visit for a few days during holidays.... etc. etc. etc.  --- and... these issues become issues for the other Tenant and then turns you into the constant 'utility police' because you constantly have to monitor # of occupants... eww. 50/50 is simple and simply understood and 100% while vacant is also simply understood.

Simply google "divorce statistics" and "divorce child custody men" to maybe understand where some men might be coming from.

Now that was the 60s you would get arrested for child abuse these days letting 10 year olds walk the streets.. 

Now I am trying to call in and get help, and the same thing - no help, just more rudeness talking to me like I'm a child.

Don't believe me, oh-man, just wait until you have REAL Landlord problems, like evicting a tenant because there meth-fueled adult-child moved in and is rapidly destroying the place, only to get it all done over months and receive back a human-feces painted home, copper stripped, destroyed everything......

Can I accommodate and extra child (Sure!)

And one thing the golden-child investors say often on the BP podcast is things long the lines of "make the offer, then worry about how you're going to close", which I'd never go that loosey-goosey. 

Ok @Walter Edmondson, here is how MOST (not all) of the seminar industry works.They get a "poster child", like Kiyosoki to lure you in and create credibility.