Is this just a verbal or napkin agreement i make with the family member and it just gets done (surely not), or is this something that gets lawyer-ed to death and recorded in the public records?  

Walking into a job site and taking extensive notes to draw you up an itemized proposal takes quite abit of time to do for a job hes probably gonna get nickle and dimed to death for.

If not, it would be better if you could inherit after death  rather than being gifted. 

Not any help to your question but in the last 3 weeks we:OKC News - Our tenant lead story as part of a drug theft home invasion - We evicted herOKC News - One of our tenants stabbed his brother to death with a kitchen knife in our rentalPolice called me to come lock up one of our apartments because they arrested a person(not our tenant) Now I have had dead tenants before but this month has been strange.

To exhaust the subject of doorways and doors swinging into that kitchen and to beat it to  death.  

Your building department and inspector know them better than you ever will - and if they find you lacking, they will be all over your case throughout the whole project like bees on honey, and quite likely nitpick you to death. 

There are no absolutes in life (outside of death) or in investing..only generalities.

My wife and I have three kids (3 years, 1, and 1) so I know how tough it can be and the toll it can take on your R.E. activities.

"Life events" include, not limited to, death, incapacitation, bankruptcy, divorce, health issues and disability as well as law suits.

Don't quote me on the details, check out the podcast, contact Grant and contact an attorney, but I got the definite impression from the discussion that DF isn't the death sentence to seller financing people have been led to believe.