I am not seeking to charge each tenant, only seeking to remotely monitor each buildings water usage to identify costly waste/problems early as possible.

Simply be a calm stand off landlord who is expecting his tenants to honor the lease - Not you accommodate their personal situation.

@Chris Johansen I believe the part you're missing is you are not "simply loaning him money" under the new iteration of your partnership arrangement.

Hi Patrick,I am looking to identify hard money lenders and private money lenders, as well as seeking advice on how to begin funding the first few deals we take on (or if we should even use outside capital initially) My personal credit has been a 15 year battle (due to 2 divorces, multiple identity theft incidents, and most recently a breach of contract dispute with a creditor (they want me to keep paying them but not provide agreed upon services).

There are so many gurus online pushing 0 down loans, and it simply does not exist if you have no experience, assets, or reserves.

Doorvest claims that they help identify, purchase, and own rental homes for a littles as 35K and help generate cash flow.At the moment, I'm little skeptical but wanted to give it a try and write each steps here (good or bad) and help the community here. 

I am not sure there is an easy way to identify attorneys who have experience with note transactions without simply asking them.

Other problems resulted when the contractor did not identify in his bidding the missing wiring in the attic space (only the crawl space). 

Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge are both extremely strong right now , with most people overpaying in the years that you mentioned and simply not KNOWING OR CARING  how to properly run a top notch Air BNB. 

We do have a house we rent in the area and simply love it.