The common leases used in MN are the ones drafted by the MN Bar Associaiton and MN Multi-housing Association. 

I put sewer and water in my name, but I'm set up to be notified of the bill is delinquent, which is common in my area.

The most common and perhaps most accurate is the income approach.

For STARTERS we don't know if we should open an LLC together and start to buy properties with private money via LLC OR if we should each get conventional loans independently (tenants in common) with an operating agreement in place.

This has become quite common.

Actually speaking to someone in person instead of over the phone has yielded me tremendous opportunities and connections.I recommend searching meetup.com to find events.

It is very common for people to have multiple quitclaim deeds to the same property, to clear up potential title defects.4.

very very very common approach.. but agents are not going to get a seller to lower price just because they are double ending.. what usually happens is if there are multiple offers agents being human.. will slant their double ended deal .it does not equate to you getting the agent to sell the property for 25% less than what it could sell for on the open market.. agent would get in big trouble.

You can google his company name for his phone number.

It is very common in suburbs to have no major local employer, beyond schools and other city workers.