Most of my skills are in open records research, office suites, interviewing for community journalism, and unrelated technical skills (811 utility location, electronic repair).

Technically you can’t have a credit score minimum requirement in Philadelphia.

However, under your current situation you are not cash flowing, so technically speaking you don't have a cash on cash return.

You can write these losses off for a second home that you partially use yourself (although technically you should subtract a % for personal use no one is going to be checking or have any way to know if you stayed there).

We love this house, and kind of just by nature of the property fell into real estate and started looking at the technical financial data later.

Technically, no, sellers can't just unilaterally cancel a contract, but they could make things difficult as far as not doing paperwork that's needed, etc, even though technically that failure to perform is a breach.  

Could this technically invoke a due on sale clause? 

This BP article may be helpful as well.https://www.biggerpockets.com/...Technically, it is possible to carry out a partial 1031 exchange and purchase something of lower value, but taxes will have to be paid on the difference.

The holes are: -technically the investor is not completely removing themselves from that deal, since the property becomes a part of the overall REIT, and therefore the shares issued have a bit of exposure to that traded asset.  

I know they are so short staffed over there.