When signing the lease, they will all be liable equally for the entire term regardless if only one or two of them get orders to another area to continue their training or fail out of the program.  

If you just starting out in the business I strongly suggest you research and join a brokerage that has strong training program covering all the Real Estate disciplines. 

. 😜)3)  Are there any city programs out there available for assisting the buyer in fixing up the place.  

Welcome to BP.The short answer is that cheap government subsidized money from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, etc., requires the purchase be by a human buyer, not an entity (LLC).

My two cents is that it is somewhat ironic that the hardworking middle class voters who elected these government officials are indirectly being taxed because ultimately some of the added tax burden will be placed on their shoulders in the form of higher rents to cover higher tax bills.Also, are there any investors out there that feel like these increased taxes will help break the current market cycle?  

Cape Coral is building a HUGE city government as well and everyone will pay for that too!

No minimum amounts.When I went back to ask a second round of financing they said they shut down the program because they did too much lending... 

Those programs all fixed the interest rates for workout loans for 5 years.

there are thousands of 4 plexs in PHX many went through foreclosure about 5 to 6 years ago and were trading for less than 100k per 4 plex with rents at 2400 gross.these are probably bounced back to about 150 to 200k... they peaked in 07 at 350k FYII knew many bay area folks who bought them at 350.. .there was a RE agent in PHX Linda Gercheck who brought her RE broker team to the bay area and did fly buy program and as stated she killed it in 05 to 07.. 

I am completely new to real estate and currently have a full time job in public government.