He never uses them since they were part of a prior hobby apparently.

We are worried that college education funds could negatively impact our ability to obtain college financial aid, particularly if i quit/lose my job/retire prior to our kids going to college.  

We turned a profit, however, the market had cooled down significantly from the prior year as the market crash of was well into recovery.

One thing to consider is the potential impact on your property insurance policy.

You want to make sure they actually did some verification on the tenants prior to moving them in.

Our policy is agents are not allowed to show houses to anyone they haven't already met and texted us a picture ID of the individual.

I have experience updating policies and procedures as a previous government employee, so I can work my way through that.

I was thinking to fly over there to see prior to moving forward.

Overall, also bear in mind that the fundamental purpose of property insurance is to bring the dwelling back to the state it was in prior to the loss, or to "make you whole." 

Would it be considered acceptable or ridiculous to ask an accredited and very active RE investor who is interested in a deal you are looking at (whom you hope to develop a positive relationship with and or/ partner or invest with you) to sign a non-circumvention agreement, prior to them seeing the deal AND prior to having the deal in question under contract?