You now need to buy your own health insurance (I went from a hospital job paying $4/month (yes, that's right and I got free damn near everything) to paying close to $500/month for dam near nothing. 

I've thought about a duplex, but at this point couldn't do any upkeep myself due to chronic neck pain, I may have been able to move ahead easier without the health issues? 

But over the years, health declined, bills stacked up and they hit a road block.

I have 4 SFR investment properties and have wiggle room to do conventional financing, but REI requires a large amount of capital so how did you overcome this capital deficient dilemma...did you turn to partnerships, syndicating, something else altogether?

Hello, Alexus, I am a newbie, but for what I have read at BP, regarding your dilemma the answer depends on what do you want to be.

A lot of it comes down to the situations such as deferred maintenance, death, health bills , divorce.

dilemma: Since I'm responsible for the loan I want to make sure that none of the other partners can "sit on the deed" if they haven't "held up their end of the deal".

The seller is an old guy who is dealing with really bad health conditions.

"Healthful Home 5-Minute Mold Test.

Also, looking for commercial in LA and invest in NNN health care facility reits.