I trust my agent but I also would like to be able to verify what they told me was true especially when it cost me more money.

Ensure that you are using a rent payment software program that records and categories rent and money charges and payments, including dates, payment amounts, and balance owed contemporaneously with the transaction.

My idea was to establish myself with some paid-off, cash flowing properties to make leveraging them for more investments a lot easier.I'd like to flip some houses to generate some cash, but  even knowing what I know I'm struggling to see how to make money doing so. 

I don't know the rent amount or security deposit amount but if they're not paying, many times they don't have the money.

Question, with loan interest rates at a high currently and cash money sitting in the bank making 4-5%, maybe have your partner do a private loan for 6.5-7% short term until rates comes down??

How can I take this money and put it down on a couple properties and use them to negate the tax obligations? 

He gives off sleazy used car salesman vibes when communicating with him and I worry about giving him any money only to never hear from him again. 

Can I take out a hard money loan for the 43K plus the 40K rehab amount and have him owner finance the rest of the purchase price to me?

This is a pretty unique restriction and I would think LESSEN the home's value considerably.

My concern.. if these big corporations are buying up a majority of houses, assuming there’s no legislation in place to stop them from doing so or sell them off, now IS the time to buy before they take everything from us over time.. it DOES seem like now or never.Regardless of recession and lay offs in the future, these big corporations will just buy more, they’ll never run out of money. and we will all have NOTHING.