Such a fantastic book, FHA financing is a highly effective house hack and can be combined with a sellers concession or up to 3% with 3.5% down to reduce or completely cover closing costs.

We are looking at a house on the West side of PCB and wondering everyones recommendations- would you choose a house- 2 blocks from beach with a golf cart- (I can link the VRBO for anyone to see) or go with a Townhouse in Horizon South.  

Might it help if she manages and we don't have PMs for some of the houses?

You might consider house hacking a small multifamily (2-4 units) for your next home.

We are a few friends with special needs kids, who want to book and buy houses adjacent to each other.

He has even come to my personal house to pick up money and some things I ordered from Amazon to be installed in the property, and fronted some of his own money to keep things moving while I wait for the draw from my lender to clear.

I am still doing the same work but set up the LT and LLC to provide improved asset protection but obviously want to structure my business so that I have both asset protection while maximizing tax benefits that i can.To be fair to my CPA he didn’t say this would be an issue, he is in the process of doing research to verify the impact of the organizational structure changes and I was looking to educate myself in parallel obviously hoping my research and my CPA’s landed in the same place.

He wants me to call him tomorrow to set up an appointment to see the house.

If you'll be living in the house and renting it from your parents that is fine for a 1031 replacement (make sure it's an arms length transaction of course). 

- for now I'm stating that the property condition has not be improved since the year before, and pointed out there are many the delayed maintenance.