He's a good guy and I'm sure he means well, but try to stay away from the guru mentality.

Dave Ramsey has great advice about getting out of debt, but his strategy focuses on only half the picture and is based on a scarcity mentality.

When you rent hundreds of properties all over the city you real start to learn neighborhoods, demographics and the over all mentality of investing in buy and hold properties.  

Other hobbies include working with my local church in the area of health ministry and Bible Quizzing, a program that helps teens with scripture memorization.

Or you can call the police and have them meet you to perform a welfare check with you at the premises to make sure he has not been injured or cannot get to the door due to health issue.

The ones who asked only a few but the more important questions (about parents health, etc) are dream clients. 

We work with the VA homeless veterans program, mental health services, youth homeless shelter, and United way to help people in need find clean, safe, and affordable housing.

Yes, sudden health issues is a rather sour lemon, but things are getting sweeter everyday.  

In 99.999% of the cases you will still need to have money down.There are a couple of items in your questions that come through as a victim mentality. 

You need to apply some constraints in financing, investors have a mentality of seeing how far they can go to not just get a decent deal, but take advantage if it puts more money in their pockets, can't approach financing like you do RE because financing is not RE!