I have a new tenant that sent me this picture stating the back door was leaking during a heavy rainfall.

If you do partnering, you do want to be covered with your LLC, separate from your partner.4.

Then I organized a little meetup where @Nick James came into the picture, bringing in his local experience having renovated a duplex in Oakland.

There are tons of podcasts and forums around this, but you would be able to buy a house and earn a side income, possibly enough to cover your mortgage.

It sounds like a pattern of behavior, and the landlord/PM is abusing pet owners to cover their carpet costs. 

One thing I look for that is not related to whether or not if they can cover the rent is character.

The seller is asking 38k for his property and if he bought this property regularly, all cash $38,000, the 28,000 covers the cost of the lien and the seller would walk away with about $3000 after everything is prorated. 

Lender's will want policy coverage high enough to cover the loan balance. 

Another method is to sell the house to someone like me who buys on a VA Mirror Wrap, takes over the payments and the attorney does the paperwork to show that the payment is being covered.

I was hoping to BRRRR it, but unless I could reduce the purchase price to $95k the refinance wouldn't cover the purchase and rehab.