It started off with me discovering Grant Cardone, I got to talking with my Dad about how much I would love to be like him someday and follow his real estate journey.

There is a DSCR loan which goes off of the rental income itself .

I just should have left that information out in general as it steered the whole conversation away from the question about tips on investing with partners and it seems like the thoughts is to start off investing on my own and then go in on future properties with them.

I would still suggest enlisting the services of a professional, however, as someone with more in-depth knowledge of your situation would be able to give a much more personalized and tailored answer for you.EDIT: I can only think of one reason off the top of my head where amending a previous year's return is the correct way to do something that you couldn't otherwise do when filing an original return.

No one made an offer, and the agent forgot to take off "Best and final due by May 9th" for a few months.

I can't read the text (hence audible) and am getting thrown off by a calculation made in Chapter 7 min 33:45(audible), Chapter 5 (hard copy)2000/300,000 = 1.5% BUT 2000/300,000 really = .0066667After re-listening to it, I just figured that he meant to say it the other way around: 300000/2000 = 1.5%It's in reference to the 2% rule if that helps you find it. 

Their agenda is to keep the attendees off balance so that by the end of the presentation the attendee's head is spinning with "10X" and "millions of dollars" and whatever, so that $25,000 sounds like a small number.

Tenants will bring in family members who are temporarily/permanently homeless, single moms will bring in new boyfriends, daughters who produce children will have a tendency to drop their offspring off with grandma and grandpa to raise, etc.. 

I am also skeptical about the price, even for Rochester, NY - there is something off.

However, that is all off topic.