Need answers to Rick's questions.Any loan will be based on your ability to pay, the cash flow from non-owner occupied properties or 5+ unit properties.

In either case you and your partner will be the responsible parties on the loans.You will have to wait for 6 month seasoning to get a new appraisal and get the loans based on that.Your ability to get either of these loans will depend on your experience, your personal credit worthiness and financials, property cash flow and your rate of acquisition.

Most sellers would not have the ability to report to a credit bureau, so it probably wouldn't have any effect. 

If I were him, I wouldn't return your escrow deposit either, since you entered into the contract with no ability to execute it. 

or a good way of going about contacting the home owner and seeing if there is a way to buy directly from them or resolve whatever issue is causing the foreclosure ( be it behind on payments or behind on taxes) in a manner that gives me rights to their property/ the ability to rent it out and somehow pay them a fair amount that avoids foreclosure .. technically making us BOTH owners of the property.. how can i legally get my name on the deed along with them by buying in and avoiding the foreclosure..

If you too want to earn handsome amount of returns, then you need to take right help from right people.Have A Track At Your Credit ReportTo correctly determine your ability to invest in the real estate, you need to have a proper estimation of your credit report.

After signing he wanted to see for himself and removed the cover breaking it,  He wants to change the locks because a former tenant visited his neighbors and remarked to him that the lock looked the same.  

As far as actually being a landlord we have completely rehabbed a home and do have the ability to do some of these things.

Regardless of my build or ability to 'defend myself against an attacker,' (as my Dad would say), doing showings is simply part of the gig.So my question is this, to all of you that must take this into consideration like myself - how do you go about doing a showing or open house in the safest way possible?

But you also risk tying up a persons property with no ability to close.Your best bet is to run your own mail and find someone off of here to work with.