I believe it would greatly reduce my risk by having a seasoned partner. thoughts?

The second a rehabbed property becomes a rental, it's value drops considerably, and -- unless you can guarantee appreciation during the resulting hold period -- the time and cost to return that property to retail condition is likely to reduce investor IRR more than just dropping the price and getting it sold below the originally projected sale price.Can you explain the logic behind turning a freshly rehabbed property into a rental -- and even worse, a SHORT-TERM rental?

slow down so you can actually start taking out money and reducing debt tax free using your primary residence exclusion.  

Also currently working to get my FICO up some as well, its not bad but it could be better if I work harder at reducing some of my debt.

On the other hand, if you are a dealer of a flipper, then you need to consider this election since you will be exposed to Self Employment taxes and the S corp election can help reduce that through salary allocations.

EVERYTHING is negotiable with them and for this reduced service from them, you don't need to pay the full fee.

Once one understands the process involved the gender of the salesperson can be reduced to a very small factor.

In the cases I know of where people do this, they do it in bulk.

As far as owner financing goes, it depends on whether he's selling the RE to get CASH to get the other bar, or if he just wants to reduce his management hassles.

Sure, it takes a hard look and a sharp pencil to be CERTAIN, but in virtually any market there are going to be key, obvious factors which determine the bulk of the value.