Use this as motivation to start creating a troubleshooting manual for common problems in a rental.

Hey Joey, this is definitely a common feeling and it sounds like you've already done a great job of getting started.

I have found partnering with others allows me to continue buying good deals.Research "Tenants in Common" as a way to partner on deals.I am open to discussing my success with getting my investment money out of a deal or how I am working with partners. 

As if it's common knowledge, which it is not. 

Finally, in situations like this, where Bob is taking the loan solely, is a common selling point to Bob the ability to do the same thing as I mentioned before with taxes in order to offset his DTI based upon the income the property produces?

But, if have a "normal" salary, I would not recommend this route. 2) The common investor route, buy properties with a mortgage on them.

It seems to be a fairly common practice.

I feel that the insurance topic is a not so commonly discussed topic on the forum so I'm just doing my part to share and hopefully specialists like you will help steer investors away from my type of incidents.

@Brennan Vaughn you made an all-too-common mistake.

In fact this is probably the most common cause of flickering lights, other than bulbs not being screwed in all the way.