I don't know, just thinking out loud (on keyboard?)

Non-competes are extremely enforceable in NC, so be very careful with this.

Boy do I hear you loud and clear, @Jackie Botham.  

I think you hear about partnerships so much on the internet, and quite often it sounds like it's easy to set up and although the concept is not extremely difficult I stand behind everybody else's comments 100% about getting a lawyer involved.

It is an extremely lucrative field if you know what you are doing.Regarding adverse possession, that is usually not a good investment strategy in Alabama.

Fast forward a couple months, one tenant has already moved out because of her, and a second one has just informed me that she will also be moving out.The tenant of concern is very kind to me upfront, pays on time and keeps the house clean, but I can tell she’s extremely manipulative and inconsiderate of others.

Knock loud and hard, many times.

PS.... my parents used to rent this home and it was a childhood home from me.. so we are extremely familiar with the property. 

I use a Rumba at home.The lower priced units are louder (whistling noise), and may not have as good of a guidance code as the higher priced units, making them run longer over the same space.The make quiet ones with better guidance systems (extra cost).The ones that do not empty their own trash, will just shut down and sit there, verbally telling you the bin is full.If they get caught up on the edge of a rug, or a sheet hanging down from the bed, they are disabled until a human comes and rescues them.Some do carpets, some do tile floors, some do both.Mission critical cleaning with no human present, seems like it has some risk.Co-cleaning with someone present seems like it works better, due to having someone to rescue it from the dreaded sheet edge hanging off the bed, or the T-shirt on the floor getting stuck in a wheel--and then it's Rumba Code xxxxxx Please Fix Me...For home use, it works great, and the whistle is less loud than a commercial vacuum cleaner.If your lifestyle is more on the messy side, with clutter all over, this is probably not a solution, because it needs to access the floor and cannot move things.For convenience (they dock to charge and memorize where they are at) have one on each floor.Just my 2 cents.

Extremely frustrating!