I'm 35, with a wonderful wife and a big ol' Shepard mix named Brewski.

Blue cities in red states are probably the right mix of what you want for the appreciation side and it not interfering with the regulations.    

If mixed in with your deposits and reserve funds, you may accidentally spend money you shouldn't have.

I have had success bringing complex situations to the creative folks of BP and letting you all do your thing... so going back to the well again.There is an area of our town that we would like to purchase our forever h...

My dad had a mixed use property built in 1890, and was told if he made major changes, the grandfathering may be lost.

It's how you build substantial wealth.Shoot for properties in great locations that will appreciate over time and match it with a strategy that can make it cash flow (short term, mid term, rent by the room, mixed use, etc.)...or in the case of a live in flip, you fix up a place in a great location that will appreciate once renovated due to the property being a place where people with options want to live.

I would focus on opening the lines of communication rather than making the situation more complicated by trying to introduce another new agent to the mix and try to claim abandonment to exclude the original agent.

I always furnish with a mix of high and low, as suggested by some other contributors.

I have contacted 2 or 3 and apparently they are not interested in insuring a property with mixed LTR and STR some of which include grad students??! 

They want someone to bring them Gatorade, a cool towel, and a snack mix while they put their feet up and earn passive income for years without knowing a single thing or listening to anyone except people who don't know anything.