Please help need to start a life.

Because I hadn't really taken care of the stress in my life, I was still having occasional seizures, but nothing close to the the 3-6 per day that I had been having.  

So much has changed in the market, economy, and even my life!

Kitchen appliances, water heater and furnace at half life.  

Additionally, the podcasts provide real life examples of how people got started, which can help you to form your own strategy of how you would like to get started.Best of luck!

So how much life is left on your roof, water heater, furnace, decks, garage door, sidewalk, driveway and then take the years left and divide by the cost it takes to fix it.

For all others- if you are a genuinely distressed seller in need of help- if you can't afford your house, you're behind on payments / taxes; uninsured; or you're a burnt out landlord with tenant / eviction issues; facing job re-location, divorce, or life has otherwise happened to you-- maybe you took advice from how to invest in real estate from some message board, and now you've got a dog or dogs you need to unload?

After the value component is done, I assume a 2% rent growth and 2% expense growth for life of the deal.

In my corporate life I managed a division that provided short sale fulfillment to the large mortgage companies. 

A charging lien in this legal definition is a claim on any distributions made to the owners of the LLC My wife and one of my LLCs was sued few years ago, one tenants dog bit another so I have real first hand knowledge how this stuff works, and plays out in a real life case.