I'm as green as they come as it relates to real estate investing, but I'm am absolute expert at starting and running businesses into the ground.However, over the years, I've trained into my muscle memory a set of skills that make it VERY difficult for me to continue to blow wads of cash on any "idea."  

Probably need to make a list of what I'm doing now (or not doing and should be) and figure out how to train my replacement!

She seemed very upbeat and was willing to leverage the available technology to get the train moving. 

My wife and I have been on the financial freedom train since March of 2017.

., why would take on such a thing without some training or using a seasoned partner to help guide you on what to do and not do?

Many landlords have excuses for doing this but it is extremely poor training to have tenants expect their landlord to be at their beck and call.

@Andy Mirza It may be normal and the easiest thing to do, but I never recommend to my clients that they use quitclaims for non-arms length transactions such as you describe.I have an ongoing situation in Texas right now where there are 3 lawyers (I'm one of them) trying to work out a mess caused by a quitclaim deed that would not even be an issue had the parties used a Special Warranty Deed 10 years back when one of the parties was trying to save a few bucks and used a quitclaim deed form they had in their files.In my opinion, quitclaim deeds are often misused.

I built a small developing company via a 3 mth training with someone here in Dallas.

Then there are those that have "training programs" or "mentoring".

., and that's where you have to think for yourself.Oh, as for GAAP, as a "big-bank" trained credit analyst, I know that GAAP, in the literal sense, is far from perfect.