Our goal is not any sort of real estate empire: we consider ourselves buy and hold investors. 

It's usually up to the buyer to confirm things that are important to them, which is one of the functions of an appraisal and certainly the goal of inspections.

Also, maybe someone could reach out here and explain why they got the license when being a "real estate professional" wasn't the end goal?

Our goal would be primarily for buy and hold cash flow.  

@Ned Carey Our goal is to buy additional 5-10 properties within the next 5 years with the leverage of the 3 rentals.

@Charles WangA few things to consider:What are your long-term goals and how does this particular transaction applies? 

Can I receive some opinions on the options and what I should tell him to convince to build wealth faster.

I once reverse engineered my goals and realized traditional saving 20% down and purchasing was not going to cut it...at least at the pace I wanted (and frankly and probably not at all). 

Hi everyone,My goal for the next 90 days is to buy my first note!  

We choose the one loan method last time, as our equity portion on that loan grows faster and can be tapped into a bit more easily than doing that on say 3 different properties.