@Mike LandryYes, she could deed the property to you so you can pay the back payments, but you're still taking a tremendous risk by not having a title commitment to review...no telling what other liens may be lurkiing in the background. 

All of these things can make a tremendous difference in both rate and availability of a loan.

As @Hattie Dizmond and @Lloyd Stanton mentioned earlier, this site has a tremendous amount of resources just waiting for you to take advantage of.

BP has a tremendous amount of information to help you, but it is only available if you seek it out.

Yes, there is a tremendous amount of information (and wisdom) on this forum.

I believe the SFR market is tremendously overvalued in most places, at least from the point of view of an investor.

Interacting face to face will help tremendously with forming those critical relationships to aid your progress.

I am an avid reader so any book recommendations that could help me expand my knowledge would be of tremendous help!

Trying to do each project with separate crews would create a tremendous amount of management overhead, not to mention the difficult of finding several different contractors in each trade that I wanted to work with -- it just wouldn't be feasible.Add in the monetary benefits of using contractors serially on projects, and I really couldn't imagine doing it any other way.But again, that's just my experience/preference...I know others who prefer to have multiple crews, even for a small number of projects.

BP has a tremendous amount of information to help you, but it is only available if you seek it out.